Introduction. Profiting from war, forestalling revolution -- Chapter 1. The unprovided province -- Chapter 2: The Spanish government trade -- Chapter 3: El Almacén del Rey -- Chapter 4: Revolutionary speculations -- Chapter 5: The business of revolution -- Chapter 6: The arithme…
"To endure war, slave rebellion, and revolution between 1795 and 1821, colonial Venezuelans engaged in neutral commerce with the United States. Trading with the United States thereafter prolonged Spanish colonial rule during the Venezuelan independence struggles"--
A fascinating revisionist history, Sustaining Empire challenges long-standing assertions that this commerce served primarily as a vector for the one-way transmission of revolutionary, liberal ideas from the North to South Atlantic.