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

ISBN-13: 9780521416245 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 348 str.

I. A. A. Thompson (Keele University); Spain) Bartolomi Yun Casalilla (Universidad de Valladolid

Opis

This is a collection of recent revisionist essays by Spanish historians on the economic and social history of seventeenth-century Castile. The major areas of current historiographical interest and debate are covered: demography, agriculture, pastoralism, the Indies trade, industrial decline, de-urbanization, taxation and the fiscal system, re-segneurialization, and the politics of redistribution. Developments in Castile are also related to the issue of the general crisis of the European economy in the seventeenth century.

Recenzje

"The essays provide important knowledge and raise important questions." Akira Motomura, The Journal of Economic History

Spis treści

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.