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The Spanish seaborne empire / by J.H. Parry.
- Title
- The Spanish seaborne empire / by J.H. Parry.
- Author
- Parry, J. H. (John Horace), 1914-1982.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 1990, c1966.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | F1412 .P25 1990 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 416 p., xvi p. of plates : ill., maps; 22 cm.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Reprint. Previously published: New York : Knopf, 1981.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / J.H. Plumb -- Prologue : The tradition of conquest. Part 1. The establishment of empire. Islands and mainland in the ocean sea -- Seville and the Caribbean -- The kingdoms of the sun -- The conquerors -- The society of conquest -- The maritime life-line -- Part 2. The responsibilities of empire. Rights and duties -- The spreading of the faith -- The ordering of society -- The enforcement of law -- Part 3. The cost of empire. Demographic catastrophe -- Economic dependence -- Peril by sea -- Part 4. The endurance of empire. Decline and recovery -- Caribbean conflicts -- Growth and reorganisation -- Part 5. The disintegration of empire. Spaniards and Americans -- The Creole revolt.
- ISBN
- 0520071409
- LCCN
- ^^^90034818^
- OCLC
- 21334731
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library