Distant Tyranny: Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800

by Regina Grafe

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691144842
• ISBN13: 9780691144849
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.8"