Barbara H Stein: 3 books

Once Europe's supreme maritime power, Spain by the mid-eighteenth century was facing fierce competition from England and France. England, in particular, had successfully mustered the financial resources necessary to confront its Atlantic rivals by mobilizing both aristocracy and merchant bourgeoisie...

With a compelling narrative that weaves together story and thesis and brings to life immense archival research and empirical data, Crisis in an Atlantic Empire is a finely grained historical tour of the period covering 1808 to 1810, which is often called "the age of revolutions." The...

Wie eine Kette liegen sie vor der Küste aufgereiht, die Inseln Wangerooge, Spiekeroog, Langeoog, Baltrum, Norderney, Juist und Borkum. Verbindet sie aber auch eine Kette mörderischer und rätselhafter Verbrechen, die sich in vergangenen Zeiten zugetragen haben? Spannend, humorvoll und tiefgründig...