Bankruptcy of Empire

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-521-87964-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 91, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 700 g

Reihe: Cambridge Latin American Studies

Marichal emphasizes that the Spanish empire remained the third most important European state in terms of fiscal income and naval power, and first in size of territorial empire, particularly because of its colonies in Spanish America. The Spanish crown was involved in four wars with Great Britain and two wars with France during the decades 1760-1810. Colonial Mexico financed most of these wars by remitting silver in the form of taxes and loans. The expenditures of the imperial wars were so great that they eventually caused the bankruptcy of both the Spanish American colonies and of the monarchy itself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marichal, Carlos

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Resurgence of the Spanish empire: bourbon Mexico as submetropolis, 1763–1800; 2. An imperial state tax: the fiscal costs and benefits of colonialism; 3. Imperial wars and loans from new Spain, 1780–1800; 4. The royal church and the finances of the viceroyalty; 5. Napoleon and Mexican silver, 1805–1808; 6. Between Spain and America: the royal treasury and the Gordon & Murphy Consortium, 1806–1808; 7. Mexican silver for the Cortes of Cadiz and the war against Napoleon, 1808–1811; 8. Twilight of empire: the bankruptcy of viceroyalty and monarchy; Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Marichal, Carlos
Carlos Marichal was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and has dual nationality of both American and Mexican. He earned both his BA and PhD from Harvard and has taught history at the university level in Mexico since 1979. Since 1989, he has been a professor of history at El Colegio de Mexico, the leading social science university institute in Mexico. He is the founder and former president of the Mexican Association of Economic History and has served on the executive committee of the International Economic History Association since 2003. He is the author of A History of Debt Crises in Latin America, 1820–1930 (1989) and is the editor or coeditor of fifteen books in Spanish and English published over the last twenty years, the majority on the fiscal and financial history of Mexico, as well as numerous texts on the economic history of Latin America.