With the opening of sea routes in the fifteenth century, groups of men and women left
Portugal to establish themselves across the ports and cities of the Atlantic or Ocean sea …

Blame the Midwest. Tender academic minds often need peace and quiet to get down to
business. We first met in the delightful town of La Crosse, Wisconsin (also known as “Mud …

Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century offers a
new approach to the relationship between warfare and state construction. Historians looking …

Christopher Storrs presents a fresh new appraisal of the reasons for the survival of Spain
and its European and overseas empire under the last Spanish Habsburg, Carlos II (1665 …

Marichal goes in depth into this issue, arguing that “the enormous extraction of Mexican
silver… was used mainly to finance an extraordinary succession of wars between Spain …

Why did the countries that first benefited from access to the New World–Castile and Portugal–
decline relative to their followers, especially England and the Netherlands? The dominant …

Este libro pretende ser una contribución al mejor conocimiento de la vida política doméstica
del reino de Castilla a lo largo de dos décadas. Además, y en tanto en cuanto las fuentes lo …

A fines de 1638 o comienzos del año siguiente, se concluyeron las obras de un pasadizo
secreto que don Gaspar Alonso Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno, IX duque de Medina Sidonia …

Il sessantennio di storia dell'Italia meridionale che va dal 1585 (rivolta popolare e uccisione
dell'Eletto del popolo Giovanni Vincenzo Starace) al 1648 (breve esperienza repubblicana …

Carlos Marichal the legacy of the monetary regime of the Spanish Empire is not only an
important chapter in world economic history but also key to an understanding of premodern …