Silver, Trade, and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe By Professor Stanley J. Stein, Dr. Barbara H. Stein
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2000 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0801861357 | PDF | 1.5 MB
The 250 years covered by Silver, Trade, and War marked the era of commercial capitalism, that bridge between late medieval and modern times. Spain, peripheral to western Europe in 1500, produced American treasure in silver, which Spanish convoys bore from Portobelo and Veracruz on the Carribbean coast across the Atlantic to Spain in exchange for European goods shipped from Sevilla (later, Cadiz)...