Reviews
For maritime historians, this book provides an insightful and detailed exploration of these changing international alliances and their impact on transatlantic and Caribbean shipping.
Required reading for specialists in Spanish and colonial Spanish American history. Essential.
A stupendous effort to broaden and deepen the contours of the ‘Spanish Atlantic’—a felicitous phrase and concept—at the end of the eighteenth century... I await the next volume from the Steins with eagerness, since it will undoubtedly round out this vast historical interpretation of the Spanish Atlantic with which they have already regaled us.
Book Details
Preface
Part One: Autumn of Proyectismo
1. Continuity and Crisis, 1789–1797
2. War and the Colonies: Aranda and Godoy
3. The Late Proyectistas
Part Two: Fissioning of New Spain
4. Reorganizing New Spain's
Preface
Part One: Autumn of Proyectismo
1. Continuity and Crisis, 1789–1797
2. War and the Colonies: Aranda and Godoy
3. The Late Proyectistas
Part Two: Fissioning of New Spain
4. Reorganizing New Spain's External Trade: The Effects of Comercio Libre, 1789–1796
5. A Hegemony Threatened: Mexico City and Veracruz
6. Mining and Its Fissures
7. Export Agriculture: Growth and Conflict
8. Comercio Neutro / Comercio Directo
9. "Informal" Comercio Neutro, 1804–1808
Part Three: Financing Empire
10. Consolidación: Spain
11. Consolidación: New Spain
12. Strange Saga: The Transfer of New Spain's Silver, 1804–1808
Part Four: Toward the Second War of Succession
13. "Treasures in the New World"
14. "La tempestad que nos amenazaba"
15. The National Drama, Act I: Conspiracy at the Escorial
By Way of Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index