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  - 9780691144849
AV  - JS6306 
U1  - 320.8094609033 23
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Decentralization in government
KW  - Spain
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Regional disparities
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Atlantic trades
KW  - Ebro
KW  - Europe
KW  - European nation-states
KW  - European state-building
KW  - Guadalquivir
KW  - Henry Swinburne
KW  - Madrid
KW  - Protestant north
KW  - Spanish economy
KW  - Spanish history
KW  - Spanish market
KW  - Spanish monarchy
KW  - absolutism
KW  - aristocracy
KW  - bacalao
KW  - cod trade
KW  - commercialization
KW  - consumer culture
KW  - contractual rule
KW  - decentralization
KW  - domestic market integration
KW  - economic development
KW  - economists
KW  - eighteenth-century Spain
KW  - fargmented authority
KW  - geography
KW  - globalization
KW  - historians
KW  - historical sociology
KW  - idleness
KW  - institutional heritage
KW  - international economy
KW  - local autonomy
KW  - market integration
KW  - market
KW  - markets
KW  - modernity
KW  - mountain ranges
KW  - nation-states
KW  - one price
KW  - patrimonialism
KW  - political debates
KW  - political economy
KW  - power
KW  - provincial taxation
KW  - southern European papists
KW  - spatial sub-units
KW  - specialized production
KW  - state
KW  - states
KW  - towns
KW  - tradable goods
KW  - trade
KW  - transoceanic goods
KW  - transport conditions
KW  - transport technology
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Preface --; Chapter 1 Markets and States --; Chapter 2. Tracing the Market --; Chapter 3. Bacalao --; Chapter 4. The Tyranny of Distance --; Chapter 5. Distant Tyranny --; Chapter 6. Distant Tyranny --; Chapter 7. Market Growth and Governance in Early Modern Spain --; Chapter 8. Center and Peripheries --; Conclusions --; A Note on the Sources --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
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. Challenging this long-held view, Regina Grafe argues that decentralization, not a strong and powerful Madrid, is to blame for Spain's slow march to modernity. Through a groundbreaking analysis of the market for bacalao--dried and salted codfish that was a transatlantic commodity and staple food during this period--Grafe shows how peripheral historic territories and powerful interior towns obstructed Spain's economic development through jurisdictional obstacles to trade, which exacerbated already high transport costs. She reveals how the early phases of globalization made these regions much more externally focused, and how coastal elites that were engaged in trade outside Spain sought to sustain their positions of power in relation to Madrid. Distant Tyranny offers a needed reassessment of the haphazard and regionally diverse process of state formation and market integration in early modern Spain, showing how local and regional agency paradoxically led to legitimate governance but economic backwardness
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400840533?locatt=mode:legacy
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