Silver, Trade, and War
Subtitle: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: October 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780801877551
Subjects: Economic history; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; International trade; History: World; General; History; History - General History; Empires & historical states; North America; Spain; Latin America - General; Europe - Spain & Portugal; History / Europe / General; Europe - General
First sentence: At the end of the seventeenth century, after two hundred years of imperialism, in nominal control of the human and natural resources of dominions in America and the western Pacific, Spain, like its imperial neighbor Portugal, was an underdeveloped, stagnant area of western Europe.