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Phillips

Six Galleons for the King of Spain

Imperial Defense in the Early Seventeenth Century

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-8018-4513-0
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungstermin: 01.08.1992
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In 1625, Martin de Arana built six Atlantic warships for the Spanish crown. The author traces the ships from their construction through a decade of service, incorporating a history of Spain's Golden Age. This book was awarded the Spain and America in Quincentennial Year of Discovery prize.

Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780801845130
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-8018-4513-0
  • Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 01.08.1992
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 1992
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
  • Gewicht: 634 g
  • Seiten: 332
  • Format (B x H x T): 178 x 254 x 18 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Phillips, Carla Rahn

Carla Rahn Phillips is the Union Pacific Professor in Comparative Early Modern History at the University of Minnesota. She has published two award-winning books with Johns Hopkins, Six Galleons for the King of Spain: Imperial Defense in the Early Seventeenth Century and, with William D. Phillips, Jr., Spain's Golden Fleece: Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century.

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Preface
Chapter 1: Challenge and Response
Chapter 2: Spanish Shipbuilding and the Contract of Martin de Arana
Chapter 3: The Construction of Arana's Sex Galleons
Chapter 4: Reckoniing the Cost
Chapter 5: Preparations fo rthe Indies Fleet of 1629
Chapter 6: Officers and Men
Chaper 7: Shipboard Life
Chapter 8: The Struggle for the Indies, 1629-1635
Chapter 9: The Struggle of Survival, 1635-1640

Appendix A: Inventories of the Six Galleons Built by Martin de Arana
Appendix B: Some Weights, Measures, and Coinage in Use in Seventeenth-Century Spain
Appendix C: Tables
Notes
Bibliography
Index