Spain, Europe, and the "Spanish Miracle," 1700-1900.

Abstract

Part I. The Problems of Perception: 1. Perceptions and perspectives 2. Focusing the problem 3. Glimpses of the Spanish economy Part II. Peninsular Spain and a Changing World: 4. The Indies trade and a peninsular economy to 1763 5. Indies trade and peninsular economy between 18th and 19th centuries: reform, crisis, adaptation 6. Trade, economic expansion, European context 7. From enlightenment to commodity: redefining resources Part III. Alternative Responses to a Changing World: 8. The Mediterranean urban system: trade, hierarchy, trends 9. Cantabrian Spain: from Guipuzcoa to Galicia capital city, markets, and Castillian interior 10. Towns and cities in Andalusia Part IV. Networks, Provincial Elites and Central Authority: 11. A narrative context 12. Basic institutions of political and economic life: family, town, office 13. Office, state, and local elites, seventeenth-nineteenth centuries 14. Conclusion: trends, events, perceptions.