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Distant Tyranny: Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800 : Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800

Grafe, Regina - 2012

Main description: Spain's development from a premodern society into a modern unified nation-state with an integrated … Spain's slow march to modernity. Through a groundbreaking analysis of the market for bacalao--dried and salted codfish that … powerful interior towns obstructed Spain's economic development through jurisdictional obstacles to trade, which exacerbated …

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A unifying enlightenment : institutions of political economy in eighteenth-century Spain (1700-1808)

Astigarraga, Jesús - 2021

"This book is the result of a research process of long durée. Entirely original material rubs shoulders with other work that has already seen the light of day in the form of previous versions of articles and chapters in books, normally in languages other than English. Some of the earlier...

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Eduardo Barreiros and the Recovery of Spain

Thomas, Hugh - 2009

immensely successful entrepreneur and one of Spain’s most prominent industrialists. In this engaging biography, the first on a …

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Global history with Chinese characteristics : autocratic states along the Silk Road in the decline of the Spanish and Qing Empires 1680-1796

Pérez-García, Manuel - 2021

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From warfare to wealth : the military origins of urban prosperity in Europe

Dincecco, Mark; Onorato, Massimiliano Gaetano - 2018

Introduction -- The importance of warfare -- Europe's urban rise -- Evaluating the safe harbor effect -- Evaluating the warfare-to-wealth effect -- Warfare to wealth in comparative perspective -- Epilogue