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 Guípuzcoa 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.