This book provides a rigorously chronological journey through the economic history of modern Spain, always with an eye opened to what happens in the international economy and a focus on economic policy making and institutional change. It shows the central theme of the Spanish economy from the...

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)...