Spanish Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century - Kuethe, Allan J. (Texas Tech University) a Andrien, Kenneth J. (Southern Methodist University, Texas)

This book covers the evolution of royal policy in Spanish America as eighteenth-century Spain modernized its empire and transformed itself into a power of the first order. Tracing the interplay between war and reform, the analysis confronts the diverse realities of the Spanish Atlantic world, which stretched from the northern Mexican borderlands to Argentina and Chile.