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Silver, Trade, and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe

Silver, Trade, and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe

Stein, Stanley J.
Stein, Barbara H.
Stein, Stanleyj

Paperback

Business GeneralGeneral PsychologySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 0801877555
ISBN13: 9780801877551
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Sep 1 2003
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.96 Depth: 9.14
Language: English

Silver, Trade, and War is about men and markets, national rivalries, diplomacy and conflict, and the advancement or stagnation of states.

Chosen by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

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 European goods shipped from Sevilla (later, Cadiz). Spanish colonialism, the authors suggest, was the cutting edge of the early global economy. America's silver permitted Spain to graft early capitalistic elements onto its late medieval structures, reinforcing its patrimonialism and dynasticism. However, the authors argue, silver gave Spain an illusion of wealth, security, and hegemony, while its system of managed transatlantic trade failed to monitor silver flows that were beyond the control of government officials. While Spain's intervention buttressed Hapsburg efforts at hegemony in Europe, it induced the formation of protonationalist state formations, notably in England and France. The treaty of Utrecht (1714) emphasized the lag between developing England and France, and stagnating Spain, and the persistence of Spain's late medieval structures. These were basic elements of what the authors term Spain's Hapsburg legacy.

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