Iberian World Empires and the Globalization of Europe 1415-1668.
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Superior document: | Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History Series |
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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
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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.