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

• Superior document: Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History Series
• Author: Yun-Casalilla, Bartolomé.
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,, 2019.; {copy}2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (531 pages)

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.