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Book Synopsis
Comprehensive and carefully researched, Edge of Crisis explains the broad array of factors that led up to the French invasion of Spain in early 1808.

Trade Review
For maritime historians, this book provides an insightful and detailed exploration of these changing international alliances and their impact on transatlantic and Caribbean shipping. -- Valentina K. Tikoff International Journal of Maritime History 2010 Required reading for specialists in Spanish and colonial Spanish American history. Essential. Choice 2010

Table of Contents

Preface
Part One: Autumn of Proyectismo
1. Continuity and Crisis, 1789–1797
2. War and the Colonies: Aranda and Godoy
3. The Late Proyectistas
Part Two: Fissioning of New Spain
4. Reorganizing New Spain's External Trade: The Effects of Comercio Libre, 1789–1796
5. A Hegemony Threatened: Mexico City and Veracruz
6. Mining and Its Fissures
7. Export Agriculture: Growth and Conflict
8. Comercio Neutro / Comercio Directo
9. "Informal" Comercio Neutro, 1804–1808
Part Three: Financing Empire
10. Consolidación: Spain
11. Consolidación: New Spain
12. Strange Saga: The Transfer of New Spain's Silver, 1804–1808
Part Four: Toward the Second War of Succession
13. "Treasures in the New World"
14. "La tempestad que nos amenazaba"
15. The National Drama, Act I: Conspiracy at the Escorial
By Way of Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/11/2009
      ISBN13: 9780801890468, 978-0801890468
      ISBN10: 0801890462

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Comprehensive and carefully researched, Edge of Crisis explains the broad array of factors that led up to the French invasion of Spain in early 1808.

      Trade Review
      For maritime historians, this book provides an insightful and detailed exploration of these changing international alliances and their impact on transatlantic and Caribbean shipping. -- Valentina K. Tikoff International Journal of Maritime History 2010 Required reading for specialists in Spanish and colonial Spanish American history. Essential. Choice 2010

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      Part One: Autumn of Proyectismo
      1. Continuity and Crisis, 1789–1797
      2. War and the Colonies: Aranda and Godoy
      3. The Late Proyectistas
      Part Two: Fissioning of New Spain
      4. Reorganizing New Spain's External Trade: The Effects of Comercio Libre, 1789–1796
      5. A Hegemony Threatened: Mexico City and Veracruz
      6. Mining and Its Fissures
      7. Export Agriculture: Growth and Conflict
      8. Comercio Neutro / Comercio Directo
      9. "Informal" Comercio Neutro, 1804–1808
      Part Three: Financing Empire
      10. Consolidación: Spain
      11. Consolidación: New Spain
      12. Strange Saga: The Transfer of New Spain's Silver, 1804–1808
      Part Four: Toward the Second War of Succession
      13. "Treasures in the New World"
      14. "La tempestad que nos amenazaba"
      15. The National Drama, Act I: Conspiracy at the Escorial
      By Way of Conclusion
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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