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  • Silver, Trade, and War

    Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe

    A look at the interaction of America, Spain, and Europe between 1500 and 1750, focusing on Spain's role in Europe's expansion across the Atlantic.The 250 years covered by this book marked the era of commercial capitalism, bridging late medieval and modern times. In 1500, Spain brought American silver back home across the Atlantic in exchange for European goods. Spanish colonialism, the authors ... Read more

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  • Silver, Trade, and War

    Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe

    Silver, Trade, and War is about men and markets, national rivalries, diplomacy and conflict, and the advancement or stagnation of states.Chosen by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleThe 250 years covered by Silver, Trade, and War marked the era of commercial capitalism, that bridge between late medieval and modern times. Spain, peripheral to western Europe in 1500, produced American ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Edge of Crisis

    War and Trade in the Spanish Atlantic, 1789–1808

    This authoritative study of colonialism in the Spanish empire at the end of the eighteenth century examines how the Spanish metropole attempted to preserve the links to its richest colony in the western Atlantic, New Spain (Mexico), in the face of international developments. Continuing the approach in Silver, Trade, and War and Apogee of Empire, Barbara and Stanley Stein detail Spain’s ad hoc ... Read more

    $69.69 USD

  • Crisis in an Atlantic Empire

    Spain and New Spain, 1808-1810

    Series Book 131 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    The capstone of a research endeavor begun by Barbara Stein and Stanley Stein nearly sixty years ago, this volume concludes their masterful tetralogy on Spanish economic and Atlantic history.With a compelling narrative that weaves together story and thesis and brings to life immense archival research and empirical data, Crisis in an Atlantic Empire is a finely grained historical tour of the period ... Read more

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    Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808

    A study of Brazil during a critical formative period which illuminates the causes of her special historical development within Latin America. Professor Maxwell analyzes the shifting relationships between Portugal, England and Brazil during the second half of the 18th Century. Through his study, Professor Maxwell is concerned with the social, economic and political significance of the events he ... Read more

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  • Latin America since 1780

    by Will Fowler ...
    Series series Modern History for Modern Languages
    Latin America since 1780 provides an accessible introductory text aimed at Spanish linguists and historians taking modules in Latin American history. It provides a compelling continental-based historical narrative supported throughout by incisive evaluation, pedagogical features, and authentic source texts in the original Spanish.This book focuses on key events such as the Wars of Independence, ... Read more

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  • The Oxford History of Mexico

    The Oxford History of Mexico is a narrative history of the events, institutions and characters that have shaped Mexican history from the reign of the Aztecs through the twenty-first century. When the hardcover edition released in 2000, it was praised for both its breadth and depth--all aspects of Mexican history, from religion to technology, ethnicity, ecology and mass media, are analyzed with ... Read more

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  • Brazil

    The Troubled Rise of a Global Power

    by Michael Reid ...
    Experts believe that Brazil, the world’s fifth largest country and its seventh largest economy, will be one of the most important global powers by the year 2030. Yet far more attention has been paid to the other rising behemoths Russia, India, and China. Often ignored and underappreciated, Brazil, according to renowned, award-winning journalist Michael Reid, has finally begun to live up to its ... Read more

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  • "We Are Now the True Spaniards"

    Sovereignty, Revolution, Independence, and the Emergence of the Federal Republic of Mexico, 1808–1824

    This book is a radical reinterpretation of the process that led to Mexican independence in 1821—one that emphasizes Mexico's continuity with Spanish political culture. During its final decades under Spanish rule, New Spain was the most populous, richest, and most developed part of the worldwide Spanish Monarchy, and most novohispanos (people of New Spain) believed that their religious, social, ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • A Concise History of Brazil

    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    The second edition of A Concise History of Brazil offers a sweeping yet accessible history of Latin America's largest country. Boris Fausto examines Brazil's history from the arrival of the Portuguese in the New World through the long and sometimes rocky transition from independence in 1822 to democracy in the twentieth century. In a completely new chapter, his son Sergio Fausto, a prominent ... Read more

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  • The Making of Modern Colombia

    A Nation in Spite of Itself

    Colombia's status as the fourth largest nation in Latin America and third most populous—as well as its largest exporter of such disparate commodities as emeralds, books, processed cocaine, and cut flowers—makes this, the first history of Colombia written in English, a much-needed book. It tells the remarkable story of a country that has consistently defied modern Latin American stereotypes—a ... Read more

    $21.89 USD