Edge of Crisis: War and Trade in the Spanish Atlantic, 1789-1808

by Barbara H. Stein, Stanley J. Stein, Stanley J Stein

This authoritative study of colonialism in the Spanish empire at the end of the eighteenth century examines how the Spanish metropole attempted to preserve the links to its richest colony in the western Atlantic, New Spain (Mexico), in the face of international developments. Continuing the approach in Silver, Trade, and War and Apogee of Empire , Barbara and Stanley Stein detail Spain's ad hoc efforts to adjust metropolitan and colonial institutions,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801890462
• ISBN13: 9780801890468
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher