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Spain, Europe, and the 'Spanish Miracle', 1700-1900 by
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.
Spain: Economic, political, and social issues by 
The Temptations of Trade by
The British and the Spanish had long been in conflict, often clashing over politics, trade, and religion. But in the early decades of the eighteenth century, these empires signed an asiento agreement granting the British South Sea Company a monopoly on the slave trade in the Spanish Atlantic, opening up a world of uneasy collaboration. British agents of the Company moved to cities in the Caribbean and West Indies, where they braved the unforgiving tropical climate and hostile religious environment in order to trade slaves, manufactured goods, and contraband with Spanish colonists. In the process, British merchants developed relationships with the Spanish--both professional and, at times, personal. The Temptations of Trade traces the development of these complicated relationships in the context of the centuries-long imperial rivalry between Spain and Britain. Many British Merchants, in developing personal ties to the Spanish, were able to collect potentially damaging information about Spanish imperial trade, military defenses, and internal conflict. British agents juggled personal friendships with national affiliation--and, at the same time, developed a network of illicit trade, contraband, and piracy extending beyond the legal reach of the British South Sea Company and often at the Company's direct expense. Ultimately, the very smuggling through which these empires unwittingly supported each other led to the resumption of Anglo-Spanish conflict, as both empires cracked down on the actions of traders within the colonies. The Temptations of Trade reveals the difficulties of colonizing regions far from strict imperial control, where the actions of individuals could both connect empires and drive them to war.
The Mediterranean Response to Globalization Before 1950 by
The studies in this exceptional volume explore the challenges and opportunities presented by globalization events prior to 1950, and identify how countries around the Mediterranean responded to them. In addition to comparative assessments of regional performance, the volume offers detailed case studies of Spain, Italy, the Balkans, Turkey, Israel and Egypt.
Rise of Fiscal States by
Specifically: Part III. South Atlantic Europe and the Mediterranean: 9. From pioneer mercantile state to ordinary fiscal state: Portugal, 1498-1914 / Eugenia Mata; 10. Spain: from composite monarchy to nation state, 1492-1914. An exceptional case? / Fransicso Comín Comín and Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla; 11. Republics and principalities in Italy / Luciano Pezzolo; 12. The formation of fiscal states in Italy: the Papal States / Fausto Piola Caselli; 13. The evolution of fiscal institutions in the Ottoman empire, 1500-1914 / Şevket Pamuk
Networks of International Trade and Investment: understanding globalization through the lens of network analysis by 