Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pt. 1. The problem of perception. 1. Perceptions and perspectives. 2. Focusing the problem. 3. Glimpses of the Spanish economy
  • Pt. 2. Peninsular Spain and a changing world. 4. The Indies trade and the peninsular economy to 1763. 5. The Indies trade and the peninsular economy between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: reform, crisis, adaptation. 6. Trade, economic expansion, and European context. 7. From entitlement to commodity: redefining resources
  • Pt. 3. Alternative responses to a changing world. 8. The Mediterranean urban system: trade, hierarchy, trends. 9. Cantabrian Spain: from Guipuzcoa to Galicia. 10. Capital city, markets, and the Castilian interior. 11. The Andalusia of the Guadalquivir basin
  • Pt. 4. Political networks, provincial elites, and central authority. 12. A narrative context. 13. Basic institutions of political and economic life: family, town, office. 14. Office, state, and local elites, seventeenth-nineteenth centuries.