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The Spanish Treasure Fleets

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It is indeed! It is a book about the unbelievable efforts made to transport gold and silver from New Spain and Peru to Spain between the 15th and 18th century, how these precious metals initiated worldwide commerce, about the rise and fall of the Spanish/ Habsburg empire and how it helped European countries to become economic and political world powers. Waltons book moves through three centuries of world history in an appropriate pace, without leaving out interesting details. It simply is a fascinating book!

Certainly one of the best written, researched and most interesting books I've read in a decade. I sent a copy to my friend in prison, he loved it too. I wish the author would write another one.

Awesome book. Very well accomplished. Often times we take for granted what we have. Such is the case of money. Money has been around in one way or another for millenia. But it would not have acquired its modern form had it not been for the Spanish Treasure Fleets.