I. A. A. Thompson / Bartolomi Yun Casalilla (eds.)

The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century

Herausgeber: Casalilla, Bartolome Y.; Yun, Bartolome; Thompson, I. A.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a collection of recent revisionist essays on the economic and social history of seventeenth-century Castile by Spanish historians. Since the 1970s an explosion of historical scholarship in Spain, employing new techniques, approaches and sources, has transformed our knowledge of the Castilian past. Hardly any of this research has been absorbed into non-specialist scholarship outside Spain, thereby diminishing the value of any analysis of European economic development that fails to take account of it. The major areas of current historiographical interest and debate are covered: demography, agriculture, pastoralism, the Indies trade, industrial decline, de-urbanisation, taxation and the fiscal system, re-seigniorialisation, and the politics of redistribution. Development in Castile are related to the issue of the general crisis of the European economy in the seventeenth century, a crisis which is itself not properly intelligible without an understanding of the Castilian experience. The essays are important in showing the apparently monolithic seventeenth-century depression in Castile to have been far from uniform in intensity, chronology or space, and in their emphasis on responses to the crisis and on explanations for failure to recover from crisis which was decisive for Spain's divergence from other Western European developments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780521416245
• ISBN-10: 0521416248
• Artikelnr.: 21753703

Inhaltsangabe

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.