This expansive history of the relationship between early modern globalization and Iberian empire began life as a translation and expansion of the author's 2004 study, Marte contra Minerva: El precio del imperio español, c. 1450–1600. Between then and now, it has blossomed into a new synthesis of the political economy of the Iberian world during its centuries of rapid expansion, geopolitical vigor, and eventual crisis that breaks out of traditional national and regional boundaries to place the histories of Spain, Portugal, and Europe in global context. Published in an exciting new series edited by two notable European scholars based in East Asia (Manuel Pérez García and Lúcio de Sousa), the book aims to take an approach to European history that is simultaneously internalist and externalist and to interrogate the relationship between war and society in the nascent Iberian world system. In so doing, the book seeks to underline the...

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