Stanley J. Stein and Barbara H

摘要

Edge of Crisis is the third volume of a great opus by Stanley J. Stein, professor emeritus of Princeton University, and his wife, historian Barbara H. Stein, being the product of a vast research project on the evolution of the Spanish Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A first volume entitled Silver, Trade and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe (2000), analysed the Habsburg legacy of patrimonialism and its debilitating effect upon the imperial administration, later moving into a penetrating discussion of the reworking of old mercantilism under the early Bourbon in the first half of the eighteenth century.