Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 5th International Conference of Manufacturing Engineering Society (MESIC 2013), June 26-28, 2013, Zaragoza, Spain. The 28 papers are grouped as follows: I. Industrial Metrology, II. Industrial Quality, III. Modeling and Simulation in...

Clothing the Spanish Empire narrates the lives of families on both sides of the Atlantic who profited from the craze for calicoes, and in doing so helped the Spanish empire to flourish in the eighteenth century.

Intro -- Contents -- ‎General Series Editor's Preface -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎List of Illustrations -- ‎Figures -- ‎Colour Plates -- ‎Tables -- ‎Guide to the Text -- ‎Chemical Symbols -- ‎Units of Measure -- ‎Equivalence of Units of Measure -- ‎Monetary Units --...

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preliminary Note -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Merchants' Handbooks (1699-1759): Educate, Inform, Reform -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From Pérez de Moya to Corachán -- 3 From Corachán to Bordázar -- 4 The...

This book examines the enormous riskiness of transatlantic trade in 18th century Spain and argues that many of the long-condemned commercial practices were vital accommodations to pervasive risk and uncertainty.

This book provides an authoritative account of policy change over labour migration in Europe during this new era of governance. It reveals the impacts of ideas and knowledge on policy change in two of the major labour importing countries in the EU: the UK and Spain.