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Iberian World Empires and the Globalization of Europe 1415-1668.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yun-Casalilla, Bartolomé.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Iberian World Empires and the Globalization of Europe 1415-1668
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Maps
  • List of Graphs
  • List of Tables
  • Introduction
  • Part I: The Iberian Grounds of the Early Modern Globalization of Europe
  • Chapter 1: Global Context and the Rise of Europe: Iberia and the Atlantic
  • Global Links and International Exchanges in Europe and the Iberian Peninsula
  • The Global Forces and the Portuguese Atlantic Expansion
  • Towards a European Poly-nuclear Recovery
  • European Recovery and Property Rights
  • The Iberian Peninsula
  • Institutions, Political Economies, and Regional Forces
  • Social Conflicts and Political Regimes
  • Aristocratic Lineages, Local Oligarchies, and Conflict
  • Isabella and Fernando: From Crisis to War and Expansion
  • Bargaining Power
  • Foreign Wars for Domestic Peace
  • Portugal: The Bases for a Precocious and Enduring Political Stability
  • Iberian State Formation in European Perspective
  • Comunidades and Germanías
  • Western Monarchies. The Iberian Kingdoms in Comparative European Perspective
  • Chapter 2: Iberian Overseas Expansion and European Trade Networks
  • Sailing the Atlantic, Conquering America
  • Challenges and Tools
  • Political Control, Bargaining, Resistance, and Environmental Failures
  • The Portuguese Empire and Asia: Bargaining, Diversity, and Limits
  • Overseas Trade and European Economies, 1492-1580
  • Silver and the Price Revolution
  • Markets and Trade Networks
  • Iberia in the Global Economy: Lowering Transaction Costs
  • An Export Economy?
  • A Semi-periphery of Europe? Domestic Trade and Institutional Improvements
  • Chapter 3: Domestic Expansion in the Iberian Kingdoms
  • A Technological Crossroad
  • Local Institutions, Regional Ecosystems, and Land Property Rights
  • Economic Expansion in a Pre-industrial Society
  • Growth and Development.
  • The Advantages of Peasant Economies and  Increasing Productivity
  • The Final Test: Industrial Development and Regional Urban Systems
  • Patterns of Economic Growth, Market, and Institutions
  • Conclusions Part I
  • The Iberian Grounds of the Early Modern Globalization of Europe
  • Part II: State Building and Institutions
  • Chapter 4: The Empires of a Composite Monarchy, 1521-1598: Problem or Solution?
  • Why Castile?
  • The Problems of a European Composite Monarchy
  • Castile, a Nervus Belli
  • A Conflictive Pact
  • The Challenges of a Dynamic Society
  • Absolutism As a Threat to the Dominant Coalition
  • A Crucial do ut des
  • Global Forces and the Mobilization of Resources
  • Silver and the Circulation of Elites Within the Empire
  • Mobilization of Resources and the Limits of the System
  • The Empire As a Solution in Portugal
  • Peninsular Trends
  • Chapter 5: The Crystallization of a Political Economy, c. 1580-1630
  • Iberian Stereotypes and Cultural Beliefs in European Perspective
  • Formal Institutions
  • Family and Social Networks
  • Transaction Costs, Rent-Seeking, and Allocation of Resources: A Qualitative Approach
  • Conclusions Part II
  • State Building and Institutions
  • Part III: Organizing and Paying for Global Empire, 1598-1668
  • Chapter 6: Global Forces and European Competition
  • Religion As a Factor: Western European Patterns of Development
  • Globalizing Agents
  • Informal Globalizing Networks
  • European Integration
  • Habsburg Wars, American Silver, and the European Trends
  • The Gradual Shift to the North
  • 1600: The Problems of Europe
  • The Peninsular Interior by 1590-1600: The Limits of a More Rigid Economy
  • Long-Term Changes
  • The End of Century Crisis in Castile
  • The Advantages of the Enemies
  • Chapter 7: The Luso-Spanish Composite Global Empire, 1598-1640
  • The Iberian Complex in a Global Perspective.
  • Two Empires and One World
  • The Problem of Information
  • Social Networks and Informal Institutions in a Cross-Border Perspective
  • 'Perverting' 'Perverted' Institutions?
  • Justice, Enforcement, and Distance
  • Dominant Coalitions, Patronage, Rent-Seeking, Corruption, Fraud, and Contraband
  • Corrosive Globalization
  • Globalization and Regional Economies
  • Problems of Regulation and Internal Conflicts
  • World War, Money, and Men
  • Mars and Mercury on a World Scale
  • Global Wars and the Relevance of the Imperial Periphery
  • Cash for the King on a Global Scale
  • But Not Only Cash: The Real Burden of the War
  • Chapter 8: Ruptures, Resilient Empires, and Small Divergences
  • Olivares' Challenge to the Imperial Elites
  • Reformism
  • Fiscalism and Upheavals
  • Castile: Change and Continuity
  • Reshaping the Conflictive Pact at the Core of the Empire
  • Patrimonial Management, the Economic Resilience of Elites, and Property Rights
  • A Balance
  • Ruptures and Continuities: A Decadent Empire?
  • Ruptures in the European Peripheral Kingdoms: Portugal and Catalonia
  • The Portuguese Rupture: Globalization Against the Composite Empire
  • The Catalan Crisis or the Problem of a Composite Monarchy
  • The Renewal of the American Colonial Pact
  • A Renovated and Difficult Agreement
  • Ecosystems, Globalization, and Plenty Versus Formal Institutions
  • Regional Recession and New Growth Patterns in Iberia, c. 1600-1668
  • Big Trends, Big Numbers: Recession in the Empire's Core
  • Crisis and Adaptation in the Peninsula's Periphery
  • A New Pattern of Growth
  • Conclusions Part III
  • Organizing and Paying for Global Empire, 1598-1668
  • Epilogue
  • References
  • Index.

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