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Se recogen, en este libro, una serie de trabajos que tienen como finalidad analizar la importancia cobrada por la industria conservera y de salazón en el desarrollo de una villa litoral de Cantabria (Santoña); coincidiendo con la pérdida de importancia de las escabecherías de los puertos.
Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century offers a new approach to the relationship between warfare and state construction. Historians looking at how war funding impinged on state development, and how state growth made wars more significant, have tended to downplay the role of military-provisioning entrepreneurs. Written off as corrupt and selfish, these entrepreneurs jarred with the received view of a rationally growing and modernising state. This volume shows that the state-entrepreneur relationship was much more fluid and constant than previously thought. The state was not able to enforce a top-down military supply policy; at the same time it benefi...
The Peninsular War has been extensively studied by British historians for decades, even centuries, but the Spanish contribution to the conflict, which was fundamental to the defeat of Napoleon’s armies, has been largely relegated to minor role. This book is an attempt to rebalance our understanding of the campaign in Iberia, written by a Spanish historian and translated into English for the first time. The book does not attempt to minimize the problems the Spanish experienced nor the catastrophic defeats suffered by the Spanish Army, but the reasons for these setbacks are viewed and analyzed from the Spanish viewpoint. With the finest elements of the Spanish Army serving with the French fo...
La construcción naval española tiene en el siglo XVII una época de referencia inexcusable. Este periodo, que resultará clave para explicar los problemas que se resolverán con el desarrollo de la Arquitectura Naval del siglo XVIII, coincide en su totalidad con la actividad constructora del astillero de Colindres, en Cantabria.
El libro tiene por objeto el estudio de las cofradías pesqueras que han existido en Castro Urdiales, Colindres, Laredo y Santoña a lo largo de la historia, abarcando el período que se inicia en la Baja Edad Media y llega a 1978, momento en el que la entrada en vigor de la Constitución les otorgó una nueva cobertura legal. En los primeros capítulos analizamos la creación de las Cofradías de pescadores establecidas en la Edad Media en Castro Urdiales y Laredo y en Colindres en Época Moderna; su base humana, prestándose atención a la composición de los gremios y a los procedimientos previstos para la incorporación de nuevos cofrades; el sistema de gobierno con el que funcionaron la...