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Taxation and Debt in the Early Modern City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Taxation and Debt in the Early Modern City

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-10-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Fiscal relations between states and cities in early modern Europe is a major concern for economic and financial historians. This collection of eleven essays is based on new research using documentary evidence from local and national archives from across Europe.

Growing in the Shadow of an Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 449

Growing in the Shadow of an Empire

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Royal Favouritism and the Governing Elite of the Spanish Monarchy, 1640-1665
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Royal Favouritism and the Governing Elite of the Spanish Monarchy, 1640-1665

Royal Favouritism and the Governing Elite of the Spanish Monarchy, 1640-1665 presents a study of the later years of the reign of Philip IV from the perspective of his favourite (valido), don Luis Mendez de Haro, and of the other ministers who helped govern the Spanish Habsburg Monarchy. It offers a positive vision of a period that is often seen as one of failure and decline. Unlike his predecessors, Haro exercised the favour that he enjoyed in a discreet way, acting as a perfect courtier and honest broker between the king and his aristocratic subjects. Nevertheless, Alistair Malcolm also argues that the presence of a royal favourite at the head of the government of Spain amounted to a major ...

Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-10-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This volume of essays contains case studies of debt bondage covering the impact of an expanding globalized economy, increased commercialization, colonial and post-colonial societies, and emerging economies.

Philip IV and the World of Spain's Rey Planeta
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 349

Philip IV and the World of Spain's Rey Planeta

Did Spain fall into decline or flourish in the seventeenth century? This edited collection looks at perceptions and representations of Philip IV, Spain's 'Planet King', and his government against the backdrop of the seventeenth-century General Crisis in Europe, wars, revolutions and a sovereign debt crisis. Scholars often associate Philip's reign (1621-1665) with decline, decadence, crisis, stagnation and adversity (as did many contemporaries); yet the glittering cultural and artistic achievements (enhanced by his patronage) of the period led it to be dubbed 'the' Golden Age. The book analyses these contradictions, examining Philip's own understanding of kingship and how he and his courtiers used art and ceremony to project an image of strength, tradition, culture and prestige, while, at the same time, the empire grappled with revolts in Europe and falling trade with its New World colonies.

Great Trade Walls in Imperial China and Spain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 147

Great Trade Walls in Imperial China and Spain

This book offers a comparative and polycentric approach to the formation of global trade networks and goods that circumnavigated China, America, and Europe in the so-called process of “early globalization” during the early modern period. Based on a pioneering archival strategy developed by GECEM Project (Global Encounters between China and Europe www.gecem.eu) and funded by the European Research Council (ERC), the chapters in this volume deploy innovative methodology built on the process of clustering new empirical evidence on geostrategic locations to analyse complex socioeconomic systems. Each chapter in this volume focuses on a specific case study that validate the usefulness of this ...

The Military in the Early Modern World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 317

The Military in the Early Modern World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-12-14
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  • Publisher: V&R Unipress

When looking at the early modern period (c. 1500–c. 1800), we often speak of "the military" or "the army". But what exactly do we mean when using these terms? The forms and structures of the armed forces have not only changed between 1500 and 1800, but also varied throughout different regions of the world and even within Europe. The contributors to this volume examine twelve early modern examples of armed forces in the Holy Roman Empire, Western and Eastern Europe, Eastern Asia and North America and paint a multifarious and even disparate picture during this period. The findings suggest that modern notions of the armed forces common in the early modern period should be used more prudently to avoid prevalent implications of non-existing continuity and uniformity.

Monetary Statecraft in Brazil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 219

Monetary Statecraft in Brazil

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-11-19
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Brazil has one of the world’s fastest growing economies and a fascinating history underpinning its evolution. This book presents an analysis of the state’s role in monetary policy, from the latter days of Portuguese rule, to the present day. Based on a variety of unknown archival sources, this study offers an alternative explanation for the rise and fall of Brazilian currencies. Monetary statecraft is a theory that accounts for the open ended, autonomous character of politics, the complex, recursive phases of public policy, and political development in the traditional sense of social inclusion. Unfortunately, there are few precedents for this type of analysis. This book fills this gap by tracing how Brazilian policy makers and observers have sought, experimented with, and reflected on a variety of forms and solutions for monetary policy since 1808. This book will be of interest to economists, financial historians and those interested in the history and economy of Brazil.

Debt and Slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Debt and Slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-10-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Filling a significant gap in the historiography, the essays in this volume show that debt slavery has played a crucial role in the economic history of numerous societies which continues even today.

Mining, Money and Markets in the Early Modern Atlantic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 375

Mining, Money and Markets in the Early Modern Atlantic

This volume documents recent efforts to track the transformation and trajectory of silver during the early modern period, from its origins in ores located on either side of the Atlantic to its use as currency in the financial centres of continental Europe. As a point of comparison, copper mining and its monetary use in the early modern Atlantic World will also be considered. Contributors rely mainly on economic and economic history methodologies, complemented by geographical and cultural history approaches. The use of novel software applications as tools to explain economic-historical episodes is also detailed.