The Treasure of the San José: Death at Sea in the War of the Spanish Succession
Awards:   Winner of AAP/Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards: World History and Biography/Autobiography 2007 Winner of AAP/Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards: World History and Biography/Autobiography 2007.
Author:   Carla Rahn Phillips (Union Pacific Professor in Comparative Early Modern History, University of Minnesota)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:  

9781421404165


Pages:   280
Publication Date:   27 October 2011
Recommended Age:   From 17
Format:   Paperback
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  • Winner of AAP/Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards: World History and Biography/Autobiography 2007
  • Winner of AAP/Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards: World History and Biography/Autobiography 2007.

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Author:   Carla Rahn Phillips (Union Pacific Professor in Comparative Early Modern History, University of Minnesota)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781421404165


ISBN 10:   1421404168
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   27 October 2011
Recommended Age:   From 17
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Last Galleons 2. Commanders of the Fleet 3. The Men of the San José 4. A Tale of Two Viceroys, One Captain General,and a World at War 5. The Last Voyage of the San José 6. After the Battle Postscript Appendix 1: The Spanish and English Calendars in 1708 Appendix 2: Treasure Registered on the San Joaquín in 1712 Notes Bibliography Index

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It sounds like the title of a boy's own adventure tale or an Errol Flynn movie, and rightly so: The Treasure of the San Jose has a swashbuckling spirit and contains all the elements for an old-fashioned romance: sea battles, suave adventurers and sunken treasure. But it also displays the kind of detail and precision that comes from shrewdly plundered archives. Carla Rahn Phillips is clearly an assiduous historian with an eye for an extraordinary story. (Wall Street Journal) For Carla Rahn Phillips, the sinking of the San Jose is significant beyond the terrible tragedy and can be used as a lens to view complex themes in a changing Spanish Empire. (American Historical Review) The human element is never forgotten as she probes the lives and careers not only of viceroys, but of lesser officials and soldiers, and even the humblest seamen and their families. (Bulletin of Latin American Research)


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Carla Rahn Phillips is the Union Pacific Professor in Comparative Early Modern History at the University of Minnesota. She has published two award-winning books with Johns Hopkins, Six Galleons for the King of Spain: Imperial Defense in the Early Seventeenth Century and, with William D. Phillips, Jr., Spain's Golden Fleece: Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century.

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