Roots of empire [electronic resource] : forests and state power in early modern Spain, c.1500-1750 / by John T. Wing.
"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 ma...
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2015]
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| Series: | Brill's series in the history of the environment,
volume 4 |
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| Variant Title: |
Roots of Empire: Forests and State Power in Early Modern Spain, C.1500-1750 |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- List of maps, figures, and tables
- Introducing Spanish state forestry
- The Widow's Oak and the Spanish state in the Valley of Carriedo
- The politics of wood shortage fears in the early modern world
- Spanish forest landscapes from prehistory to the reconquest
- Plan of the work
- A new state forestry for the first global age
- Forests of the Ultramar
- The struggle to stay afloat in the seventeenth century
- Bottoming out and revival under the First Bourbon, 1700-1746
- The triumph of state forestry : 1748-1754.