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Historia de España
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Monarquía e imperio
Antonio-Miguel Bernal analiza el largo siglo XVI de la historia de España (1474-1598) en una visión innovadora, alejada de los tópicos y lugares comunes de una «historiografía oficial» que mitificó el período que va de los Reyes Católicos a la muerte de Felipe II. Nos muestra ese tiempo como «una etapa crucial en la historia de una España en proceso de construcción», en que la fase inicial de formación de una «monarquía española» -que pudo verse potenciada por el impulso integrador que le ofrecían las colonias americanas- se vio perturbada por la necesidad de emplear recursos y fuerzas en la lucha por un imperio europeo, de interés meramente dinástico, que no fue finalme...
The Power of Cities
The Power of Cities is an interdisciplinary, cultural-comparative volume on Iberian urban studies. It is the first attempt to bring together recent research on the transformation of Iberian cities from Late Antiquity to the 18th century combining archaeological and historical sources.
A Dissimulated Trade
Germán Jiménez-Montes sheds light on the role of foreigners in the Spanish empire. The book examines how a group of Dutch, Flemish and German merchants came to dominate the supply of timber in Seville.
Mythical Indies and Columbus's Apocalyptic Letter
With his Letter of 1493 to the court of Spain, Christopher Columbus heralded his first voyage to the present-day Americas, creating visions that seduced the European imagination and birthing a fascination with those "new" lands and their inhabitants that continues today. Columbus's epistolary announcement travelled from country to country in a late-medieval media event -- and the rest, as has been observed, is history. The Letter has long been the object of speculation concerning its authorship and intention: British historian Cecil Jane questions whether Columbus could read and write prior to the first voyage while Demetrio Ramos argues that King Ferdinand and a minister composed the Letter...
Distant Tyranny
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...
Maritime History as Global History
This study aims to provide new insights into the connections between maritime history and global history. It demonstrates the significance of maritime activity as a conduit of global exchange by examining local, national, and international interdependencies and trade networks, and a broad range of time periods, geographical areas, and various sub-divisions of maritime historical research. It is composed of ten essays, with an introductory chapter and concluding chapter. The first five essays discuss the effects globalisation on shipping in the early modern period; the following three discuss maritime transportation and the economics of industrialisation from the nineteenth century to the pre...
