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"This is a comprehensive long-run history of economic and political change in the Iberian Peninsula. Written by a team of leading historians and including extensive new data, this will be an essential work of reference for scholars of Portugal and Spain and also of comparative European economic development"--
List of contents
Preface: By way of presentation Pedro Lains; Introduction Leonor Freire Costa, Regina Grafe, Alfonso Herranz-Loncán, David Igual Luis, Vicente Pinilla and Herminia Vasconcelos Vilar; Part I. The Making of Iberia, 700-1500 David Igual Luis and Hermínia Vasconcelos Vilar; Section I. The Early Middle Ages, 700-1200: 1. Muslim and Christian polities, 700-1200 Hermenegildo Fernandes and Flocel Sabaté; Section II. The Medieval Economy, 1000-1500: 2. Production, 1000-1500 María Asenjo-González and Antoni Furió; 3. Population, 1000-1500 Luís Miguel Duarte, Ignacio Álvarez Borge and Mario Lafuente Gómez; 4. The polity, 1000-1500 Maria Helena Coelho, Francisco Franco-Sánchez, Jesús Ángel Solórzano Telechea and Hermínia Vasconcelos Vilar; 5. Money, credit and banking, 1000-1500 David Carvajal, António Henriques and Pere Verdés; 6. Technology, 1000-1500 Arnaldo Sousa Melo, Germán Navarro Espinach and Ricardo Córdoba de la Llave; 7. Living standards, 1000-1500 Hipolito Rafael Oliva Herrer, Pere Benito i Monclús and Isabel dos Guimarães Sá; 8. International trade and commerce, 1000-1500 Hilario Casado Alonso, David Igual Luis, Flaìvio Miranda and Joana Sequeira; 9. The Iberian economy in global perspective, 700-1500 Jeff Fynn-Paul; Part II. Globalization and Enlightenment (1500-1800): 10. Patterns of Iberian economic growth in the early modern period Nuno Palma and Carlos Santiago-Caballero; 11. Population of Iberian peninsula in the early modern period: a comparative and regional perspective Andreia Durães and Vicente Pérez Moreda; 12. Institutions and policy (1500-1800) Mafalda Soares da Cunha, Francisco Gil Montes and Ana Sofia Ribeiro; 13. Early modern financial development in the Iberian Peninsula Leonor Freire Costa, Susana Münch Miranda and Pilar Nogues Marco; 14. Science, knowledge and technology, 1500-1800 Carlos Alvarez-Nogal, Alejandro García-Montón, and Pedro Lains; 15. Living standards, inequality, and consumption (1500-1800) Esteban Nicolini, Fernanda Olival and Fernando Ramos-Palencia; 16. Trade and the colonial economies, 1500-1828 Cátia Antunes, Regina Grafe and Xabier Lamikiz; 17. The economic history of Iberia in a wider context, 1500-1800 Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla; Part III. Industrialization and Catching-Up, 1800-2000 Alfonso Herranz-Loncán and Vicente Pinilla: 18. Economic growth and the spatial distribution of income, 1800-2000 Alfonso Herranz-Loncán, M. Teresa Sanchis-Llopis and Daniel A. Tirado-Fabregat; 19. Population growth, composition, and educational levels Amélia Branco and Fernando Collantes; 20. Economic policies and institutions José Luís Cardoso and Francisco Comín; 21. Iberian financial system, 1800-2000 Pablo Martín-Aceña and Rita Martins de Sousa; 22. Economic growth and structural change in the Iberian economies, 1800-2000 Luciano Amaral, Concha Betrán and Vicente Pinilla; 23. Living standards in Iberia, 1800-2010 Alfonso Díez-Minguela, Jordi Guilera and Julio Martinez-Galarraga; 24. Iberian globalization and catching up in the poor South European periphery. 1830-2010 Antonio Tena-Junguito, Giovanni Federico and Ester G. Silva; 25. The Iberian economy in comparative perspective, 1800-2000 Stephen Broadberry and Rui Pedro Esteves.
Summary
This is a comprehensive long-run history of economic and political change in the Iberian Peninsula. Written by a team of leading historians and including extensive new data, this will be an essential work of reference for scholars of Portugal and Spain and also of comparative European economic development.
