Guayaquil and Manila supplied needs in the Pacific . Luis Navarro García , Hispanoamerica en el Siglo XVIII ( Sevilla , 1975 ) , p . 63 . 28. Ricardo Rees Jones , El despotismo ilustrado y los intendentes de la Nueva Espana ...
The Spanish Empire in America
The Spanish Empire was a complex web of places and peoples. Through an expansive range of essays that look at Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific, this volume brings a broad range of regions into conversation.
Two are the starting points of this book.
The Spanish empire in America was the first of the great seaborne empires of western Europe; it was for long the richest and the most formidable, the focus of envy, fear, and hatred.
From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spain’s early conquests in the Americas.
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the time were brethren—such as Mercator, the inventor of mapping,' and Thomas a Kempis, who was close to the order with his Imitation of Christ. Adrian had, however, found himself able to accept worldly appointments.
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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 ...
The concise contextual introduction to this volume traces the origins, history, and methods of the Spanish enterprise in the Americas; it also discusses the nature of the conflict between the Spanish and the Aztecs in Mexico, and compares ...