The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: New Perspectives on the Economic and Social History of Seventeenth-Century Spain

Abstract

Introduction 1. Castile 1580-1650: economic crisis and the policy of 'reform' Angel Garcia Sanz 2. The plague in Castile at the end of the sixteenth century and its consequences Vicente Perez Moreda 3. The agrarian 'depression' in Castile in the seventeenth century Gonzalo Anes 4. Castilian agriculture in the seventeenth century: depression, or 'readjustment and adaptation'? Enrique Llopis Agelan 5. Wool exports, transhumance and land use in Castile in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries L. M. Bilbao and E. Fernandez de Pinedo 6. Andalusia and the crisis of the Indies trade, 1616-1720 A. Garcia-Baquero Gonzalez 7. The textile industry in the economy of Cordoba at the end of the seventeenth and the start of the eighteenth centuries: a frustrated recovery Jose Ignacio Fortea Perez.