TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grafe,Regina
TI  - Distant tyranny: markets, power, and backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800
T2  - The Princeton economic history of the Western world
SN  - 9781400840533
AV  - HF3685 .G73 2012 
U1  - 381.0946 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Commerce
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Marketing
KW  - General
KW  - Sales & Selling
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Europe
KW  - Spain & Portugal
KW  - fast
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Decentralisatie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Economische ontwikkeling
KW  - Regionale politiek
KW  - Spain
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Espagne
KW  - Conditions économiques
KW  - Spanje
KW  - nli
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter 1. Markets and States; Chapter 2. Tracing the Market: The Empirical Challenge; Chapter 3. Bacalao: A New Consumer Good Takes on the Peninsula; Chapter 4. The Tyranny of Distance: Transport and Markets in Spain; Chapter 5. Distant Tyranny: The Historic Territories; Chapter 6. Distant Tyranny: The Power of Urban Republics; Chapter 7. Market Growth and Governance in Early Modern Spain; Chapter 8. Center and Peripheries; Conclusions; A Note on the Sources; Bibliography; Index
N2  - 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
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