Six Galleons for the King of Spain

Carla Rahn Phillips is the Union Pacific Professor in Comparative Early Modern History at the University of Minnesota. She has published two award-winning books with Johns Hopkins, Six Galleons for the King of Spain: Imperial Defense in the Early Seventeenth Century and, with William D. Phillips, Jr., Spain's Golden Fleece: Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century.

"Sea buffs will love it. This book will interest specialists in Spanish and maritime history and general readers who are interested in the sea. The illustrations and maps are excellent... A systematic exposition of the techniques of Spanish shipbuilding and the costs and problems associated with it, made vivid and immediate by the author's description of the construction, equipping, and financing of the six galleons of the title. History "Handsomely produced and illustrated... The six galleons built for the king by Martin de Arana in the royal shipyards at Zorozza in the Bilbao estuary were the products of a long and distinguished tradition of Spanish shipbuilding, well summarized by Phillips. Isis

• Maps and IllustrationsTablesPrefaceChapter 1: Challenge and ResponseChapter 2: Spanish Shipbuilding and the Contract of Martin de AranaChapter 3: The Construction of Arana's Sex GalleonsChapter 4: Reckoniing the CostChapter 5: Preparations fo rthe Indies Fleet of 1629Chapter 6: Officers and MenChaper 7: Shipboard LifeChapter 8: The Struggle for the Indies, 1629-1635Chapter 9: The Struggle of Survival, 1635-1640Appendix A: Inventories of the Six Galleons Built by Martin de AranaAppendix B: Some Weights, Measures, and Coinage in Use in Seventeenth-Century SpainAppendix C: TablesNotesBibliographyIndex