Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
The Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy 1665-1700
Author: Christopher StorrsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199246378
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Christopher Storrs presents an analysis of why Spain and its empire survived during the reign of the last Spainish Hapsburg. He argues it was not wholly due to the aid of allies but also because the state and society were clearly committed to the retention of empire.
A Grammar of the Spanish Language
Author: Auguste-Louis JossePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spanish language
Languages : es
Pages : 476
Book Description
War and Prices in Spain, 1651-1800
Author: Earl Jefferson HamiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Spanish Central America
Author: Murdo J. MacLeodPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292717619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
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 they have on the peoples living in Latin America? These questions continue to resonate in Latin American studies today, making this updated edition of Murdo J. MacLeod's original work more relevant than ever. Colonial Central America was a large, populous, and always strategically significant stretch of land. With the Yucatán, it was home of the Maya, one of the great pre-Columbian cultures. MacLeod examines the long-term process it underwent of relative prosperity, depression, and then recovery, citing comparative sources on Europe to describe Central America's great economic, demographic, and social cycles. With an updated historiographical and bibliographical introduction, this fascinating study should appeal to historians, anthropologists, and all who are interested in the colonial experience of Latin America.
Crisis and Decline
Author: Kenneth J. AndrienPublisher:
ISBN: 9781597407038
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Dante
Author: Leigh HuntEarly Modern Capitalism
Author: Maarten PrakPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134604416
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This volume takes stock of recent research on economic growth, as well as the development of capital and labour markets, during the centuries that preceded the Industrial Revolution. The book underlines the diversity in the economic experiences of early modern Europeans and suggests how this variety might be the foundation of a new conception of economic and social change.
A Treatise on the Alteration of Money
Author: Juan de MarianaPublisher: Christian's Library Press
ISBN: 1880595885
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
In this treatise we find an insightful analysis concerning how monetary debasement and inflation increase prices, which proceeds to illustrate how such increases do not affect everyone equally-in effect, causing a revolution in fortunes. In a parallel argument, Mariana explains how government, if given control of other forms of private property, would also debase the values of those forms and use them according to its own interests.
Vienna and Versailles
Author: Jeroen Frans Jozef DuindamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521822626
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
This book brings vividly to life the courtiers and servants of the imperial court in Vienna and the royal court at Paris-Versailles. Drawing on a wealth of material masterfully set in a comparative context, the book makes a unique contribution to the field of court studies. Staff, numbers, costs and hierarchies; daily routines and ceremonies; court favourites and the nature of rulership; the integrative and centripetal forces of the central courtly establishment: all are seen in a long-term, comparative perspective that highlights both the similarities and the distinctiveness of developments in France and the Habsburg lands. In the process, most conventional views of each court - and of court life in general - are challenged, and an alternative interpretation emerges. Finally, by relocating the household in the heart of the early modern state, Vienna and Versailles forces us to rethink the process of statebuilding and the notion of 'absolutism'.