{"product_id":"edge-of-crisis-barbara-h-stein-9780801890468","title":"Edge of Crisis: War and Trade in the Spanish Atlantic, 1789-1808","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis authoritative study of colonialism in the Spanish empire at the end of the eighteenth century examines how the Spanish metropole attempted to preserve the links to its richest colony in the western Atlantic, New Spain (Mexico), in the face of international developments. Continuing the approach in \u003ci\u003eSilver, Trade, and War\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eApogee of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e, Barbara and Stanley Stein detail Spain's ad hoc efforts to adjust metropolitan and colonial institutions, structures, and ideology to the pressures of increased competition in the Old and New worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn reviewing the attempts at reform, the authors explore networks of individuals and groups, some accepting and others rejecting the Spanish transatlantic trade system. They provide accounts from both sides of the Atlantic to show how economic policy, imperial goals, and consequent social divisions and factionalism in New Spain and Spain undermined the government's efforts at economic and political adjustments. The Steins draw on a wide range of archival material in Mexico, Spain, and France to place the waning of the Spanish empire in an Atlantic perspective. They also show how Spain came to the verge of collapse in a time of revolution and at the beginning of the transition from commercial to industrial capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComprehensive and carefully researched, \u003ci\u003eEdge of Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e explains the broad array of factors that led up to the French invasion of Spain in early 1808.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara H. Stein,Stanley J. Stein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801890462\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801890468\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 640\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.19h x 6.36w x 1.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/11\/2009 pg. 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2010 pg. 123","brand":"Barbara H. Stein","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065131512063,"sku":"9780801890468","price":84.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aa742825-0797-480e-9dc3-5aa7a1934413.jpg?v=1768673200","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/edge-of-crisis-barbara-h-stein-9780801890468","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}