Roots of Empire: Forests and State Power in Early Modern Spain, C.1500-1750 by Wing, John T.

Roots of Empire: Forests and State Power in Early Modern Spain, C.1500-1750 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004261365)

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Roots of Empire: Forests and State Power in Early Modern Spain, C.1500-1750 by Wing, John T.

Roots of Empire: Forests and State Power in Early Modern Spain, C.1500-1750

$166.00
Roots of Empire: Forests and State Power in Early Modern Spain, C.1500-1750 by Wing, John T.

Roots of Empire: Forests and State Power in Early Modern Spain, C.1500-1750

$166.00
Format: Hardcover
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Roots of Empire is the first monograph to connect forest management and state-building in the early modern Spanish global monarchy. The Spanish crown's control over valuable sources of shipbuilding timber in Spain, Latin America, and the Philippines was critical for developing and sustaining its maritime empire. This book examines Spain's forest management policies from the sixteenth century through the middle of the eighteenth century, connecting the global imperial level with local lived experiences in forest communities impacted by this manifestation of expanded state power. As home to the early modern world's most extensive forestry bureaucracy, Spain met serious political, technological, and financial limitations while still managing to address most of its timber needs without upending the social balance.

Author: John T. Wing
ISBN-10: 9004261362
ISBN-13: 9789004261365
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 01/08/2015
Pages: 282
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d
By John T. Wing
By John T. Wing
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John T. Wing, Ph.D. (2009), University of Minnesota, is Assistant Professor of History at the College of Staten Island, The City University of New York. He has published articles on Spanish forest history in Environmental History and the Journal of Early Modern History.

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