Los indios de Norteamérica

La defensa marítima de los dominios españoles fue insuficiente durante el s. XVII, y con el cambio de siglo comenzó a preocupar seriamente a la Corona. Los nuevos tiempos exigían rehacer la marina y formar oficiales guerreros, que fueran también cosmógrafos y científicos. Pronto sobresalieron los vascos, que dirigieron expediciones cartográficas y de observación científica, defendieron el Mediterráneo contra los turcos y el Pacífico contra los corsarios, y mantuvieron a Inglaterra en jaque hasta la batalla de Trafalgar.

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Rigurosa investigación, basada en documentación inédita o poco utilizada, sobre la época que media entre la creación de la Provincia marítima de Santander (1799) y la Provincia de Santander (1833), complejo proceso político y administrativo iniciado por el Estado liberal para garantizar su presencia en la nueva provincia. Su estudio se aborda desde dos perspectivas: la local, con el enfrentamiento entre los intereses de la hidalguía rural y la burguesía urbana, deseosa por delimitar un espacio en el que iba a ser la principal protagonista, y la nacional, con el análisis de los...