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Spanish Central America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 622

Spanish Central America

The seventeenth century has been characterized as "Latin America's forgotten century." This landmark work, originally published in 1973, attempted to fill the vacuum in knowledge by providing an account of the first great colonial cycle in Spanish Central America. The colonial Spanish society of the sixteenth century was very different from that described in the eighteenth century. What happened in the Latin American colonies between the first conquests, the seizure of long-accumulated Indian wealth, the first silver booms, and the period of modern raw material supply? How did Latin America move from one stage to the other? What were these intermediate economic stages, and what effect did th...

Urbanization in the Americas from its Beginning to the Present
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 697
Las flotas de Indias
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 435

Las flotas de Indias

Desde que Castilla miró a poniente tras el descubrimiento y conquista de nuevos territorios en América, inició una expansión imperial que culminó la Monarquía Hispánica y que situó a España como la primera potencia mundial. Durante más de tres siglos, las flotas que atravesaban el Atlántico hacia la Nueva España en una travesía de ida y vuelta, cambiaron la forma de entender el comercio, las comunicaciones y la economía para crear y, sobre todo, sostener uno de los más grandes imperios que los tiempos han visto. Enrique Martínez Ruiz, gran experto en el periodo, realiza un exhaustivo y completo recorrido a través de la historia de las flotas de Indias, elemento capital del Imperio español, para poner en valor y rescatar del olvido colectivo la gran revolución que conectó el mundo y estableció el libre comercio.

Actes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 738

Actes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1964
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Legacy of Dutch Brazil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 375

The Legacy of Dutch Brazil

Argues that Dutch Brazil is integral to Atlantic history and made an impact well beyond the colonial and national narratives in the Netherlands and Brazil.

A Fortified Sea
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 317

A Fortified Sea

"Illuminates the role of forts in the greater Caribbean during the long eighteenth century as international powers fought for ascendency"--

How the Spanish Empire Was Built
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 490

How the Spanish Empire Was Built

The untold story of the engineering behind the empire, showing how imperial Spain built upon existing infrastructure and hierarchies of the Inca, Aztec, and more, to further its growth. Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited, and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this? Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo argue that Spain’s engineers were critical to this venture. The Spanish invested in infrastructure to the advantage of local power brokers, enhancing the abilities of incumbent elites to grow wealthy on trade, and widening the arc of Spanish influence. Bringing to life stories of engineers, prospectors, soldiers, and priests, the authors paint a vivid portrait of Spanish America in the age of conquest. This is a dazzling new history of the Spanish Empire, and a new understanding of empire itself, as a venture marked as much by collaboration as oppression.

Service and Regulatory Announcements
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 534

Service and Regulatory Announcements

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1914
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Horacio Capel, geógrafo (eBook)
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 674

Horacio Capel, geógrafo (eBook)

No son pocos los maestros que dejan una impronta indeleble en sus alumnos y ;colaboradores, tanto por la orientación ideológica con la que se enfrentan a su magisterio como por la contribución decisiva a la formación humana de sus discípulos. La carrera del profesor Horacio Capel es, como revela la presente miscelánea, un modelo y un referente para la Universidad de Barcelona. A la luz de las líneas de investigación que ha desarrollado a lo largo de su trayectoria, sus colegas y discípulos han concebido un libro que, como las obras del propio Capel, está llamado a convertirse en un manual de referencia y en una recomendación bibliográfica inexcusable para los estudios de geografía urbana y teoría de la geografía, ámbitos en los que destacan las perspectivas significativamente innovadoras a nivel internacional aportadas por el homenajeado.