This book is a now classic social and economic study of the origins, apogee, and decline of coffee in the Parahyba Valley of South Central Brazil. Local society, the free-planters, professionals, tradesmen, and lower class citizens-and the slaves, are viewed through the routine of plantation life. The author shows how abolition, erosion, and ...
The 250 years covered by "Silver, Trade, and War" marked the era of commercial capitalism, that bridge between late medieval and modern times. Spain, peripheral to western Europe in 1500, produced American treasure in silver, which Spanish convoys bore from Portobelo and Veracruz on the Carribbean coast across the Atlantic to Spain in exchange for ...
Once Europe's supreme maritime power, Spain was facing fierce competition from England and France on the Atlantic by the mid-18th century. Further, its efforts to reconstruct its metropolitan economy and create an effective "colonial impact" with its American colonies were seriously stalled. In "Apogee of Empire", Stanley J. Stein and Barbara H. ...
This authoritative study of colonialism in the Spanish empire at the end of the eighteenth century examines how the Spanish metropole attempted to preserve the links to its richest colony in the western Atlantic, New Spain (Mexico), in the face of international developments. Continuing the approach in Silver, Trade, and War and Apogee of Empire, ...
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