Perry Anderson, Lineages of the Absolutist State (London, 1974), p. 505
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Fernandez-Armesto, 1492, pp. 2–4
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Timothy H. Parsons, The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fail (Oxford, 2010), p. 117; Peter Jay, Road to Riches or The Wealth of Man (London, 2000), p. 147.