HIST 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Tobacco Industry, Hacienda, Habsburg Monarchy
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Global context influencing the development of spanish america. In the 17th century most of the economy is in central america/mexico and brazil. In the 18th century, a bigger area of new spain is part of it, as well as cuba, venezuela, new. Granada, peru and more of brazil better integrated into the global economy, politics, and markets of trade. Jamaica and some of america is british, cuba and florida still spanish, haiti is french. First event on the major global scene; spanish america was part of the spanish kingdoms so the war affects spanish american politics. Coalition england, netherlands, holy roman empire, portugal enter into war against france and spain. Because france was allied with spain french ships were allowed to go to south america spain invaded for a short period of time; war ended with the treaty of utrecht in 1713. One of the most important consequences: allowed for the entrance of imperial powers in spanish.