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The North American Role In The Spanish Imperial Economy 1760 1819
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Book Synopsis The North American Role in the Spanish Imperial Economy, 1760-1819 by : Jacques A. Barbier
Download or read book The North American Role in the Spanish Imperial Economy, 1760-1819 written by Jacques A. Barbier and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Spain, Europe, and the 'Spanish Miracle', 1700-1900 by : David R. Ringrose
Download or read book Spain, Europe, and the 'Spanish Miracle', 1700-1900 written by David R. Ringrose and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-26 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A challenging re-examination of Spanish history, questioning orthodoxies about Spain's economy and society.
Book Synopsis Simón Bolívar by : Lester D. Langley
Download or read book Simón Bolívar written by Lester D. Langley and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling biography offers a unique perspective on the life and career of one of Latin America's most famous—and most adulated—historical figures. Departing from the conventional, narrow treatment of Bolívar's role in the Spanish-American wars of independence (1810–1825), leading historian Lester D. Langley frames this remarkable figure as the quintessential Venezuelan rebel, who by circumstance and sheer will rose to be the continent's most noted revolutionary and liberator. In the process, he became both a unifying and a divisive presence whose symbolic influence remains powerful even today. Twice Bolívar gained power, twice he confronted a formidable counterrevolution, twice he was compelled to flee. His ultimate tactic of using slave and mixed-race troops aroused both the admiration and fear of U.S. leaders and became a topic of heated discussion in the critical debates of 1817 and 1818 over U.S. policy toward the Spanish-American wars as well as the arguments over the admission of Missouri as a state in 1820–1821 and the U.S. decision to participate in the ill-fated Congress of Panama. Although he earned the sobriquet of the "George Washington" of South America, Bolívar in victory became more conservative and critical of the democratic tide of the era. Unlike Washington, Bolívar was forced into exile, the victim of his own ambitions and the fears of others. In his tragic end, he symbolized the glorious warrior so consumed by his own ambition and hatreds that he was destroyed. In death, he became a cult figure whose life and meaning casts a long shadow over modern Venezuelan history. As the author convincingly explains, he remains the most relevant figure of the revolutionary age in the Americas.
Book Synopsis The Golden Leaf by : Charlotte Cosner
Download or read book The Golden Leaf written by Charlotte Cosner and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Choice Reviews Editors' Pick Through the rise and fall of empires, ideologies, and economies, tobacco grown on the tiny island of Cuba has remained an enduring symbol of pleasure and extravagance. Cultivated as one of the first reliable commodities for those inhabitants who remained after conquistadors moved on in search of a mythical wellspring of gold, tobacco quickly became crucial to the support of the swelling Spanish Empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Eventually, however, tobacco became one of the final stabilizing forces in the empire, and it ultimately proved more resilient than the best laid plans of kings and queens. Tobacco, and those whose livelihoods depended on it, shrugged off the Empire's collapse and pressed on into the twentieth century as an economic force any state or political power must reckon with. Cosner explores the history of this golden leaf through the personal narratives of farmers, bureaucrats, and laborers, all struggling to build an independent and lucrative economic engine. Through conquest, rebellion, colonial and imperial schemes, and the eventual Communist revolution, Cuban tobacco and cigars became a luxury item that commanded loyalty that defied mere borders or embargoes. Ultimately, The Golden Leaf is a story of two carefully cultivated products: Cuban tobacco, and its lofty reputation.
Book Synopsis Territories of Empire by : Andy Doolen
Download or read book Territories of Empire written by Andy Doolen and published by Oxford Studies in American Lit. This book was released on 2014 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Doolen's monograph reorients literary history, turning to the neglected Western writings that shaped the distinctive process of US expansionism in the years following the Louisiana Purchase.
Book Synopsis To the Vast and Beautiful Land by : Light Townsend Cummins
Download or read book To the Vast and Beautiful Land written by Light Townsend Cummins and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the Vast and Beautiful Land gathers eleven essays written by Light Townsend Cummins, a foremost authority on Texas and Louisiana during the Spanish colonial era, and traces the arc of the author’s career over a quarter of a century. Each essay includes a new introduction linking the original article to current scholarship and forms the connective tissue for the volume. A new bibliography updates and supplements the sources cited in the essays. From the “enduring community” of Anglo-American settlers in colonial Natchez to the Gálvez family along the Gulf Coast and their participation in the American Revolution, Cummins shows that mercantile commerce and land acquisition went hand-in-hand as dual motivations for the migration of English-speakers into Louisiana and Texas. Mercantile trade dominated by Anglo-Americans increasingly tied the Mississippi valley and western Gulf Coast to the English-speaking ports of the Atlantic world bridging two centuries, shifting it away from earlier French and Spanish commercial patterns. As a result, Anglo-Americans moved to the region as residents and secured land from Spanish authorities, who often welcomed them with favorable settlement policies. This steady flow of settlement set the stage for families such as the Austins—first Moses and later his son Stephen—to take root and further “Anglocize” a colonial region. Taken together, To the Vast and Beautiful Land makes a new contribution to the growing literature on the history of the Spanish borderlands in North America.
Book Synopsis Soundings in Atlantic History by : Bernard Bailyn
Download or read book Soundings in Atlantic History written by Bernard Bailyn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a cutting-edge collection of original essays on the connections and structures that made the Atlantic world a coherent regional entity.
Book Synopsis The Economic Aspects of Spanish Imperialism in America, 1492-1810 by : John Fisher
Download or read book The Economic Aspects of Spanish Imperialism in America, 1492-1810 written by John Fisher and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 2nd English edition of John Fisher’s acclaimed book. The study examines economic relations between Spain and Spanish America in the colonial period, and their implications for the economic structures of both parties, from the beginning of Spanish imperialism until the outbreak of the Spanish-American revolutions for Independence. Originally published in Spanish in 1992, the text has been fully revised for this first English edition. Fisher begins with a general overview of the economic aspects of Spanish imperialism in America until the mid-sixteenth century before considering what America was able to offer Spain (and, through her, Europe as a whole), in terms of products and resources. A detailed explanation of imperial commercial policy follows and a close examination is made of inter-colonial trade, explaining ways in which it was articulated both directly and indirectly towards trans-Atlantic structures. The final four chapters of the book deal exclusively with the Bourbon era inaugurated in 1700. Issues tackled include the Spanish defeat at the hands of the British, the impact of commercial reform upon economic life in America and Spanish-Spanish American relations on the eve of the revolutions for Independence.
Book Synopsis Paths to Power by : Michael J. Hogan
Download or read book Paths to Power written by Michael J. Hogan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paths to Power includes essays on US foreign relations from the founding of the nation though the outbreak of World War II. Essays by leading historians review the literature on American diplomacy in the early Republic and in the age of Manifest Destiny, on American imperialism in the late nineteenth century and in the age of Roosevelt and Taft, on war and peace in the Wilsonian era, on foreign policy in the Republican ascendancy of the 1920s, and on the origins of World War II in Europe and the Pacific. The result is a comprehensive assessment of the current literature, helpful suggestions for further research, and a useful primer for students and scholars of American foreign relations.
Book Synopsis Empires of the Atlantic World by : J. H. Elliott
Download or read book Empires of the Atlantic World written by J. H. Elliott and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the civilizations they encountered and destroyed in North and South America. Elliott identifies and explains both the similarities and differences in the two empires' processes of colonization, the character of their colonial societies, their distinctive styles of imperial government, and the independence movements mounted against them. Based on wide reading in the history of the two great Atlantic civilizations, the book sets the Spanish and British colonial empires in the context of their own times and offers us insights into aspects of this dual history that still influence the Americas.
Book Synopsis Handbook of South American Governance by : Pia Riggirozzi
Download or read book Handbook of South American Governance written by Pia Riggirozzi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governance in South America is signified by strategies pursued by state and non-state actors directed to enhancing (some aspect of) their capabilities and powers of agency. It is about the spaces and the practices available, demanded or created to ‘make politics happen’. This framework lends explanatory power to understand how governance has been defined and practiced in South America. Pía Riggirozzi and Christopher Wylde bring together leading experts to explore what demands and dilemmas have shaped understanding and practice of governance in South America in and across the region. The Handbook suggests that governance dilemmas of inequitable and unfulfilled political economic governance in South America have been constant historical features, yet addressed and negotiated in different ways. Building from an introduction to key issues defining governance in South America, this Handbook proceeds to examine institutions, actors and practices in governance focusing on three core processes: evolution of socio-economic and political justice claims as central to the demands of governance; governance frameworks foregrounding particular issues and often privileging particular forms of political practice; and iterative and cumulative processes leading to new demands of governance addressing recognition and identity politics. This Handbook will be a key reference for those concerned with the study of South America, South American political economy, regional governance, and the politics of development.
Book Synopsis Cocoa and Chocolate, 1765-1914 by : William Gervase Clarence-Smith
Download or read book Cocoa and Chocolate, 1765-1914 written by William Gervase Clarence-Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the period from the Seven Years War to the First World War Clarence-Smith discusses how cocoa production helped transform some economies but ultimately failed to act as a dynamo for large scale development.
Book Synopsis The Long Process of Development by : Jerry F. Hough
Download or read book The Long Process of Development written by Jerry F. Hough and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book examines the history of Spain, England, the United States, and Mexico to explain why development takes centuries.
Book Synopsis Merchant Organization and Maritime Trade in the North Atlantic, 1660-1815 by : Olaf Uwe Janzen
Download or read book Merchant Organization and Maritime Trade in the North Atlantic, 1660-1815 written by Olaf Uwe Janzen and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the challenges faced by maritime merchants operating in the North Atlantic in the early modern period, and examines the opportunities, aspirations, and methods utilised in the pursuit of profitable trade. The book collects nine essays and a reflective conclusion, which cumulatively explore the major themes of trade within empires; growth of trade; new initiatives within trade empires; government initiatives in relation to maritime mercantile trade; merchant migration; and changes in international trade. The book attempts to provide scholarly insight and perspectives into early modern economic life, through the maritime mercantile activities of various European and North American nations.
Book Synopsis Europeans Abroad, 1450–1750 by : David Ringrose
Download or read book Europeans Abroad, 1450–1750 written by David Ringrose and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Ringrose looks beyond the traditional history of European expansion—which highlights European conquests, empire building, and hegemony—in order to explore the more human and genuinely cross-cultural dimensions of Europeans abroad before 1750.
Book Synopsis British Trade with Spanish America, 1763-1808 by : Adrian J. Pearce
Download or read book British Trade with Spanish America, 1763-1808 written by Adrian J. Pearce and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this erudite and comprehensive study, Adrian Pearce offers a detailed survey of British trade with Spanish America in the latter half of the eighteenth century, drawing together a variety of sources and looking at all aspects of commercial activity.
Book Synopsis Rafael Carrera and the Emergence of the Republic of Guatemala, 1821–1871 by : Ralph Lee Woodward Jr.
Download or read book Rafael Carrera and the Emergence of the Republic of Guatemala, 1821–1871 written by Ralph Lee Woodward Jr. and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rafael Carrera (1814-1865) ruled Guatemala from about 1839 until his death. Among Central America’s many political strongmen, he is unrivaled in the length of his domination and the depth of his popularity. This “life and times” biography explains the political, social, economic, and cultural circumstances that preceded and then facilitated Carrera’s ascendancy and shows how Carrera in turn fomented changes that persisted long after his death and far beyond the borders of Guatemala.
