in the cork business: raw cork, corkwood in planks and stoppers of natural cork. Given that prices of these products are … not available, the data bases for reconstruction are, on one hand, unitary values of production and exports from Portugal … and Spain and, on the other hand, unitary ones of United Kingdom’s imports. By using these values, selected after …

During the second half of the twentieth century, the Spanish cork industry lost its hegemonic position to Portugal in … industrial cork district of Aveiro (Santa Maria da Feira) in the north of Portugal. It was there that the growth of the … the world market of manufactured cork. In this work we intend to demonstrate that one of the most important explanations …

characteristics that the cork business has had in Spain during the considered period, at least from a commercial point of view … century. For countries, Portugal has turned, from the civil war, into the first world power to the detriment of Spain. Our …In this work it is analyzed the evolution and composition of the foreign Spanish trade of cork products during the …

With unpublished sources, this paper draws the evolution of French banking in Spain between 1800 and 2000 and shows how …