Introduction -- Part I The Iberian Grounds of the Early Modern Globalization of Europe -- Global Context and the Rise of Europe. Iberia and the Atlantic -- Iberian Overseas Expansion and European trade networks -- Domestic Expansion in the Iberian Kingdoms -- Conclusions Part I -- Part II State...

This book traces regional income inequality in Spain during the transition from a pre-industrial society to a modern economy, using the Spanish case to shed further light on the challenges that emerging economies are facing today. Regional inequality is currently one of the most pressing...

This book undertakes a theoretical and econometric analysis of intense economic growth in selected European countries during the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty first. Focusing on the accelerated economic growth that occurred in Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, and...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. 1808: The Napoleonic Wars and the Loss of the American Colonies -- Chapter 3. 1898: The “Fin de siècle” crisis -- Chapter 4. 1936: Frustrated hopes: the Great Depression, the Second Republic, and the Civil War -- Chapter 5. 1959: The Stabilization Plan...

Chapter 1 Reinsurance in America Regulatory Regimes and Markets -- Chapter 2 Dutch reinsurance and the first wave of globalization -- Chapter 3 Swedish Reinsurers in the Non-Life Sector -- Chapter 4 The ups and downs of French reinsurance in the 20th century -- Chapter 5 The ups and downs of...

1. The historical evolution of the theory of the entrepreneur; Mariano Castro Valdivia. University of Jaen -- 2. How to do business in Castile: trade and financial companies (15th-16th centuries); David Carvajal. University of Valladolid -- 3. Simón Ruiz: a great entrepreneur in 16th-century...

1. The Economic Growth of Spain: A Very Long-Term Perspective -- 2. From Empire to Peripheral Economy (1789–1840) -- 3. The Impact of European Industrialization: The Double Failure of Agrarian and Industrial Strategies (1840–1890) -- 4. Spain in the First Economic Globalization (1890–1914)...

1 Introduction -- 2 An Overview of Pandemics -- 3 The Spanish Flu in the News -- 4 Unequal Mortality during the Spanish Flu -- 5 The Spanish Flu and the Labor Market -- 6 The Spanish Flu and the Housing Market -- 7 Taking Stock: The Aggregate Effects of the Spanish Flu.

1 Introduction -- 2 Early Globalization: Arguments and Evidence -- 3 Harbingers of Modernity: an Iberian perspective -- 4 Silver production, prices and globalization in the eighteenth century -- 5 The Austrian mining industry and the Iberian globalization -- 6 The Manila Galleon and the Age of...

Tourism Innovation: A Spanish and Portuguese Perspective -- A Real or (Only) Aesthetic Narrative: An Approach to CSR Online Communications from Portuguese Hotels -- Cooperation Networks in Tourism and Hospitality: An Analysis Applied to Health and Wellness Tourism Product in Portugal -- A...