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 …

occurs. This groundbreaking book advances such a theory by examining in detail why England and Spain developed so slowly from … Spain in the 1260s to explain why Mexico lagged behind the United States economically in the twentieth century. Based on the … occurs. This groundbreaking book advances such a theory by examining in detail why England and Spain developed so slowly from …