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Documents pertaining to the Compañía de Filipinas
Documents relating to the management of the Compañía de Filipinas, including a letter to Josef Gálvez from the Company directors, and an abstract of the proceedings of the first Junta General. The letter, dated July 27, 1785 in Madrid, from directors Vicente Rodríguez de Rivas, Manuel Francisco de Joaristi, and Gaspar Leal to José de Gálvez, minister of the Indies, acknowledges receipt of Gálvez's order to the president of the Contratación de Cádiz for the transfer of 12 million reales from the funds of the Temporalities of the Indies to commissioners of the Company, Ignacio de Jurbituaga and Domingo Esteban de Olza. Of this amount, 6 million reales will be paid in accordance with G...
Soundings in Atlantic History
These innovative essays probe the underlying unities that bound the early modern Atlantic world into a regional whole and trace some of the intellectual currents that flowed through the lives of the people of the four continents. Drawn together in a comprehensive Introduction by Bernard Bailyn, the essays include analyses of the climate and ecology that underlay the slave trade, pan-Atlantic networks of religion and of commerce, legal and illegal, inter-ethnic collaboration in the development of tropical medicine, science as a product of imperial relations, the Protestant international that linked Boston and pietist Germany, and the awareness and meaning of the Atlantic world in the mind of that preeminent intellectual and percipient observer, David Hume. In his Introduction, Bailyn explains that the Atlantic world was never self-enclosed or isolated from the rest of the globe but suggests that experiences in the early modern Atlantic region were distinctive in ways that shaped the course of world history.
Cien empresarios madrile¤os
El enorme desarrollo comercial e industrial de Madrid como principal centro financiero de España, queda perfectamente ilustrado a través de las biografías de sus emprendedores más relevantes. Los cien protagonistas han sido elegidos por un jurado que combina expertos en historia con destacados representantes del mundo empresarial madrileño y de la Administración autonómica, procurando representar, de forma equilibrada, las diferentes industrias y las compañías líderes en cada época. La selección de autores profesionales garantiza la objetividad en la investigación y en el análisis de las iniciativas emprendedoras y de las peripecias vitales de cada empresario. Esta obra constituye la base para la construcción de la historia empresarial madrileña, al identificar a los prohombres más destacados, al estimular la recuperación de documentación y el acceso de los investigadores a los archivos privados de muchas familias y sociedades y al haber logrado aunar en un esfuerzo común a más de cuarenta autores y departamentos universitarios.
San Juan Bautista
Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas, 1978 In their efforts to assert dominion over vast reaches of the (now U.S.) Southwest in the seventeenth century, the Spanish built a series of far-flung missions and presidios at strategic locations. One of the most important of these was San Juan Bautista del Río Grande, located at the present-day site of Guerrero in Coahuila, Mexico. Despite its significance as the main entry point into Spanish Texas during the colonial period, San Juan Bautista was generally forgotten until the first publication of this book in 1968. Weddle's narrative is a fascinating chronicle of the many religious, military, colonial, and commerical expeditions that passed through San Juan and a valuable addition to knowledge of the Spanish borderlands. It won the Texas Institute of Letters Amon G. Carter Award for Best Southwest History in 1969.
Early U.S. Blackball Teams in Cuba
Before they were the stars of the Negro Leagues--before the Negro Leagues even began--outstanding African American players like Rube Foster, Charles Grant and Pop Lloyd competed against the leading players of Cuba. In the early years of the 20th century, winners of the "colored" championship in the United States traveled to Cuba to compete against the top Cuban League teams, amateur clubs, and All-Star squads. Part of the "American Series" that brought teams from the major, minor, and Negro leagues to the island nation for more than six decades, these games are arguably the most important in a baseball relationship that was vital to the game's history. Since the end of Cuban professional bas...
