modern imperialism. The imperial encounter with political economy was neither uniform across political, economic, cultural … interactions between different solutions to the problem of empire. By synthesising economic, intellectual, and cultural …

15th century and through the middle of the 17th century, Spain was the world’s dominant economic and military empire. But … a series of factors combined to exert severe pressure on the empire and ultimately led to its decline beginning in the … circumstances, including the Spanish Empire of the 16th century. And while some historians have appraised the decline of Spain in …

for the economic structures of both parties from the beginning of Spanish imperialism until the outbreak of the Spanish …