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

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Author / Creator:	Grafe, Regina.
Imprint:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (315 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	The Princeton economic history of the Western world Princeton economic history of the Western world.
Subject:	Commerce. Economic history. Spain -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century. Spain -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century. Spain -- Economic conditions. Spain. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11122243

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ISBN:	9781400840533 1400840538 1283379635 9781283379632 9786613379634 6613379638 0691144842 9780691144849
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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 Castilian capital city of Madrid drew resources from surrounding Spanish regions as it pursued its quest for centralization. According to this view, powerful Madrid thwarted trade over large geographic distances by destroying an integrated network of manufacturing towns in the Spanish interior. Challeng.
Other form:	Print version: Grafe, Regina. Distant tyranny. Princeton [N.J.] : Princeton University Press, ©2012 9780691144849
Standard no.:	9786613379634

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