This paper offers an overview of the modern Economic History of an interior Spanish province (Valladolid). It investigates the reasons of the economic retardation of this central region in contrast with the periphery of the country. It also presents the unknown attempts of the local business...

Relationship between politics and trade has directly or indirectly influenced the evolution of market and maritime route integration in the Modern Age. A highly momentous time of wars between the XVII and the XVIII centuries has been chosen, in an attempt to carry out an analysis, from an...