How the Spanish empire was built : a 400-year history
Fernández-Armesto, Felipe2024
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Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited, and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this? The authors argue that Spain's engineers were critical to this venture. The Spanish invested in infrastructure to the advantage of local power brokers, enhancing the abilities of incumbent elites to grow wealthy on trade, and widening the arc of Spanish influence. Bringing to life stories of engineers, prospectors, soldiers, and priests, the authors paint a vivid portrait of Spanish America in the age of conquest. This is a dazzling new history of the Spanish Empire, and a new understanding of empire itself, as a venture marked as much by collaboration as oppression.
Main title:
How the Spanish empire was built : a 400-year history / Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo.
Author:
Fernández-Armesto, Felipe, authorLucena Giraldo, Manuel, author
Imprint:
London : Reaktion Books, 2024.
Collation:
349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps ; 25 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Spanish.
ISBN:
9781789148404 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
909.097124909.0971246
Language:
EnglishSpanish
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BRN:
2445706