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Edge of crisis : war and trade in the Spanish Atlantic, 1789-1808 / Barbara H. Stein and Stanley J. Stein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stein, Barbara H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spain--Commerce--New Spain.
- Spain.
- New Spain--Commerce--Spain.
- New Spain.
- Spain--History--Charles IV, 1788-1808.
- Spain--Commercial policy--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (636 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Comprehensive and carefully researched, Edge of Crisis explains the broad array of factors that led up to the French invasion of Spain in early 1808.
- Contents:
- Continuity and crises, 1789-1797
- War and the colonies : Aranda and Godoy
- The late proyectistas
- Reorganizing New Spain's external trade: the effects of comercio libre, 1788-1796
- A hegemony threatened : Mexico City and Veracruz
- Mining and its fissures
- Export agriculture : growth and conflict
- Comercio neutro/comercio directo
- "Informal" comercio neutro, 1804-1808
- Consolidacion : Spain
- Consolidacion : New Spain
- Strange saga : the transfer of New Spain's silver, 1804-1808
- "Treasures in the New World"
- "La tempestad que nos amenazaba"
- A national drama, Act I : conspiracy at the Escorial.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9589-8
- OCLC:
- 551797554
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