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Eighteenth-Century Naval Officers
This book surveys the lives and careers of naval officers across Europe at the height of the age of sail. It traces the professionalization of naval officers by exploring their preparation for life at sea and the challenges they faced while in command. It also demonstrates the uniqueness of the maritime experience, as long voyages and isolation at sea cemented their bond with naval officers across Europe while separating them from landlubbers. It depicts, in a way no previous study has, the parameters of their shared experiences—both the similarities that crossed national boundaries and connected officers, and the differences that can only be seen from an international perspective.
The Origins of Bourbon Reform in Spanish South America, 1700-1763
Integrating the political and governmental histories of Spain and the American colonies, this book focuses on the political and governmental history of the Viceroyalty of Peru during the 'early Bourbon' period and provides a new interpretation of the period's broader significance within Spanish American history.
Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century
Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century offers a new approach to the relationship between warfare and state construction. Historians looking at how war funding impinged on state development, and how state growth made wars more significant, have tended to downplay the role of military-provisioning entrepreneurs. Written off as corrupt and selfish, these entrepreneurs jarred with the received view of a rationally growing and modernising state. This volume shows that the state-entrepreneur relationship was much more fluid and constant than previously thought. The state was not able to enforce a top-down military supply policy; at the same time it benefi...
The Spanish Resurgence, 1713-1748
A major reassessment of Philip V's leadership and what it meant for the modern Spanish state Often dismissed as ineffective, indolent, and dominated by his second wife, Philip V of Spain (1700–1746), the first Bourbon king, was in fact the greatest threat to peace in Europe during his reign. Under his rule, Spain was a dynamic force and expansionist power, especially in the Mediterranean world. Campaigns in Italy and North Africa revitalized Spanish control in the Mediterranean region, and the arrival of the Bourbon dynasty signaled a sharp break from Habsburg attitudes and practices. Challenging long-held understandings of early eighteenth-century Europe and the Atlantic world, Christopher Storrs draws on a rich array of primary documents to trace the political, military, and financial innovations that laid the framework for the modern Spanish state and the coalescence of a national identity. Storrs illuminates the remarkable revival of Spanish power after 1713 and sheds new light on the often underrated king who made Spain’s resurgence possible.
The Emergence of a National Market in Spain, 1650-1800
Awarded the Jaume Vicens Vives Prize by the Spanish Association of Economic History, this study analyses the development of the Spanish domestic market from 1650 to 1800, which transformed the country from a pseudocolonial territory, politically and economically dependent on its European neighbours, to a significant European power. The Emergence of a National Market in Spain, 1650-1800 places Spain firmly in a European context, arguing that the origins of a sophisticated economy must be understood through the complex diplomacy of the period, namely the competition between Britain and France for dominance in the Iberian peninsula. It was in response to this rivalry that the Spanish state actively promoted the conditions for economic development in the 18th century, aided by autonomous commercial networks of Catalan merchants, Navarrese tradesmen and migrant French businessmen. This original interpretation by one of Spain's leading economic historians, available in English for the first time, is indispensable reading for students and scholars of Spanish history.
Ideology and Foreign Policy in Early Modern Europe (1650-1750)
The years 1650 to 1750 - sandwiched between an age of 'wars of religion' and an age of 'revolutionary wars' - have often been characterized as a 'de-ideologized' period. However, the essays in this collection contend that this is a mistaken assumption. For whilst international relations during this time may lack the obvious polarization between Catholic and Protestant visible in the proceeding hundred years, or the highly charged contest between monarchies and republics of the late eighteenth century, it is forcibly argued that ideology had a fundamental part to play in this crucial transformative stage of European history. Many early modernists have paid little attention to international re...
I Taller Interfacultativo de Innovación Docente
Uno de los objetivos clave en el programa de gobierno del Rector Antonio Calvo (julio 2015) es la Innovación Docente. Así, este aspecto consustancial al quehacer del Profesor Universitario se ha integrado en los objetivos del Vicerrectorado de Profesorado e Investigación en los cursos 2015-16 y 2016-17 y continuará en el 2017-18. Lejos de lo que en muchos ámbitos externos al mundo de la educación superior y sus profesionales se pueda pensar, la Innovación Docente no es solo técnica, sino también conocimiento y experiencia del oficio docente, imaginación, iniciativa, trabajo en equipo y –sobre todo– intercambio. En ese sentido, la intrínseca inquietud del Docente Universitario,...
La Gobernación de la Monarquía de España
Esta obra de Feliciano Barrios, catedrático de Historia del Derecho y de las Instituciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha y reconocido especialista en la materia que nos ocupa, se adentra en el estudio de la monarquía hispánica bajo los Austrias desde su doble condición de Imperio universal y católico. Como pieza central de tan vasto aparato y titular de una corona extendida sobre dos mundos, el rey es analizado en su simbología diversa: armas reales, insigne Orden del Toisón de Oro, sello real y firma regia. Pero la figura de monarca se convierte, a su vez, en un poderoso imán que genera un espacio para su desenvolvimiento, una corte y un sistema de gobierno. El espacio es ...
I Congreso Interfacultativo de Innovación Docente – CIFID-1
Hace un año celebrábamos en nuestra universidad el I Taller sobre Innovación Docente, dando así cumplimiento de uno de los objetivos prioritarios del equipo de gobierno de la universidad. A la vista de cómo se había desarrollado aquella jornada en julio de 2017, no era difícil intuir que su proyectada continuación, el I Congreso de Innovación Docente (CIFID-1), sería todo un éxito. Y así ha sido. Los cientos de participantes en este encuentro hemos tenido la valiosa oportunidad de compartir multitud de iniciativas de sumo interés, poniendo en evidencia, una vez más, la inquietud de nuestro profesorado a la hora de buscar nuevos caminos para el continuo progreso en su función d...
La monarquía de España y sus visitantes
El lector har a trav‚s de estas p ginas un recorrido ameno y sugerente por la Espa¤a de lso siglos XVI-XIX.
