The Spanish Atlantic World In The Eighteenth Century: War And The Bourbon Reforms, 1713?796 (New Approaches To The Americas)

This book covers the evolution of royal policy in Spanish America as eighteenth-century Spain modernized its empire and transformed itself into a power of the first order. Tracing the interplay between war and reform, the analysis confronts the diverse realities of the Spanish Atlantic world, which stretched from the northern Mexican borderlands to Argentina and Chile. Unlike earlier studies on eighteenth-century Spain, this work incorporates the early Bourbon experience into the narrative and integrates the impressive reemergence of the Royal Armada into a fuller picture of administrative, commercial, fiscal, ecclesiastical, and military change.

• • Author: Allan J. Kuethe, Kenneth J. Andrien
• • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• • Publication Date: May 12, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 402 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1107043573
• • ISBN-13: 9781107043572