The wars of the period 1770-1830, including the North and South American wars of independence and the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, are frequently considered to be the first wars fought by all combatants as 'national wars'. Yet they touched every continent of the globe. New…
Continuity and crises, 1789-1797 -- War and the colonies : Aranda and Godoy -- The late proyectistas -- Reorganizing New Spain's external trade: the effects of comercio libre, 1788-1796 -- A hegemony threatened : Mexico City and Veracruz after 1789 -- Mining and its fissures -- …
"A Short History of Progress is nothing less than a concise history of the world since Neanderthal times, elegantly written, brilliantly conceived, and stunningly clear in its warning to us now. Wright shows how human beings have a way of walking into "progress traps," beginning…