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Author Phillips, Carla Rahn, 1943-

Title Six Galleons for the King of Spain Imperial Defense in the Early Seventeenth Century / Carla Rahn Phillips
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
1986

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 318 p.) : ill
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Tables -- Preface -- ONE Challenge and Response -- TWO Spanish Shipbuilding and the Contract of Martin de Arana -- THREE The Construction of Arana's Six Galleons -- FOUR Reckoning the Cost -- FIVE Preparations for the Indies Fleet of 1629 -- SIX Officers and Men -- SEVEN Shipboard Life -- EIGHT The Struggle for the Indies, 1629-1635 -- NINE The Struggle for Survival, 1635-1640 -- Appendix A: Inventories of the Six Galleons Built by Martin de Arana
Appendix B: Some Weights, Measures, and Coinage in Use in Seventeenth-Century Spain -- Appendix C: Tables -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: p. 293-308
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Spain. Armada -- History -- 17th century
SUBJECT Spain. Armada fast (OCoLC)fst00533161
Subject Galleons -- Spain -- History -- 17th century
Galleons
Military readiness
Spanish colonies
SUBJECT America -- History, Naval
Spain -- History, Naval -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88002295
Spain -- Colonies -- Defenses -- America -- History -- 17th century
Subject America
Spain
Genre/Form History
Naval history
Form Electronic book
Author Project Muse. distributor.
LC no. 86045444
ISBN 1421441195
9781421441191