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Distant tyranny : markets, power, and backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800.

Spain's development from a premodern society into a modern unified nation-state with an integrated economy was painfully slow and varied widely by region. Economic historians have long argued that high internal transportation costs limited domestic market integration, while at the same time the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grafe, Regina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Colección:Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter 1. Markets and States; Chapter 2. Tracing the Market: The Empirical Challenge; Chapter 3. Bacalao: A New Consumer Good Takes on the Peninsula; Chapter 4. The Tyranny of Distance: Transport and Markets in Spain; Chapter 5. Distant Tyranny: The Historic Territories; Chapter 6. Distant Tyranny: The Power of Urban Republics; Chapter 7. Market Growth and Governance in Early Modern Spain; Chapter 8. Center and Peripheries; Conclusions; A Note on the Sources; Bibliography; Index.