Spain, Europe, and the 'Spanish Miracle', 1700-1900

Portada
Cambridge University Press, 26 nov 1998 - 439 páginas
In his important new study, David Ringrose re-examines the history of Spain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He challenges the conventional ways of framing that history, questions the importance of the empire for peninsular Spain, and suggests that some of the seemingly dramatic modernization of the nineteenth century was already under way in the eighteenth. In addition, the emergence of a governing elite is placed in the context of family and patronage networks. This challenging book will change our understanding of the history of modern Spain.
 

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Focusing the problem
29
The nature of innovation
34
Networks and regional economies
36
Continuity and contingency
53
Glimpses of the Spanish economy
55
A sustained growth proposition
56
Episodic nature of existing analysis
59
Reconstructing the longterm view
64
Political framework of the urban system
255
Madrid as market
260
The components of regional commerce
271
Implications and reflections
286
The Andalusia of the Guadalquivir basin
291
Society and economy
294
towns transportation families
301
Political networks provincial elites and central authority
311

An alternative long view
79
The Indies trade and the peninsular economy to 1763
83
Points of contact in 1700
87
Evolution of the Indies trade 17001763
94
The Indies trade and the peninsular economy between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries reform crisis adaptation
106
Colonial empire and SpanishAmerican trade 17931820
119
Trade economic expansion and European context
135
Evaluating the crisis
138
The longterm trend of exports
146
Significance of trade for development
148
The Spanish economy in a changing world
154
From entitlement to commodity redefining resources
163
Historiographical perspectives
167
land as commodity in Spain
169
Observations
181
The Mediterranean urban system trade hierarchy trends
187
Evolution of the regional system
188
eighteenth to nineteenth centuries
206
Cantabrian Spain from Guipiizcoa to Galicia
217
emergence of a north coast urban system
223
elaboration of the urban system
231
Capital city markets and the Castilian interior
249
A narrative context
313
The Ancien Regime
315
Crisis of political authority
319
A nineteenthcentury narrative
324
modernity and tradition
328
Basic institutions of political and economic life family town office
331
A townbased society
336
The nature of office
339
The varieties of office
341
Expansion and venality of municipal office
344
Creating central authority
349
Town and state 17001900
353
Office state and local elites seventeenthnineteenth centuries
360
The evolution of a managerial class
362
Recruitment
366
Nineteenthcentury recruitment
374
Continuity and change revisited
382
Conclusion trends events perceptions
389
Bibliography
397
Index
429
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