Distant Tyranny: Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800 (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) ebook

by Regina Grafe

An economic historian of early modern Spain and its empire, Grafe examines Spain from 1650 to 1800 through .

An economic historian of early modern Spain and its empire, Grafe examines Spain from 1650 to 1800 through a multidisciplinary lens to explore the limited extent to which it was emerging as a nation-state with integrated domestic markets. Distant Tyranny is a revisionist work that will become mandatory reading for historians of early modern Spain. stimulating, thoughtful book. There is little to quibble with in Grafe's work. Distant Tyranny provides an illuminating discussion of the territorial division of political authority in Spain and market integration there, with an innovative focus on the market in cod.

Her author faces a great challenge: to explain why economic development, market integration, and the creation of the modern state were so slow in Spain. 2The outline of the book is presented in chapter 1. It is essentially devoted to showing that the prevalent theories of political economy are problematic as a way of giving a convincing explanation of the relationship between market integration and state formation in early modern Spain.

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Chapter 4 The Tyranny of Distance: Transport and Markets in Spain.

Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World. 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. Chapter 4 The Tyranny of Distance: Transport and Markets in Spain. Spain suffers from a particularly unforgiving geography by European standards.

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Distant Tyranny offers a needed reassessment of the haphazard and regionally diverse process of state formation and market integration in early modern . Princeton Economic History of the Western World.

Distant Tyranny offers a needed reassessment of the haphazard and regionally diverse process of state formation and market integration in early modern Spain, showing how local and regional agency paradoxically led to legitimate governance but economic backwardness. Princeton University Press.

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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, is to blame for Spain's slow march to modernity. Through a groundbreaking analysis of the market for bacalao--dried and salted codfish that was a transatlantic commodity and staple food during this period--Grafe shows how peripheral historic territories and powerful interior towns obstructed Spain's economic development through jurisdictional obstacles to trade, which exacerbated already high transport costs. She reveals how the early phases of globalization made these regions much more externally focused, and how coastal elites that were engaged in trade outside Spain sought to sustain their positions of power in relation to Madrid.

Distant Tyranny offers a needed reassessment of the haphazard and regionally diverse process of state formation and market integration in early modern Spain, showing how local and regional agency paradoxically led to legitimate governance but economic backwardness.

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I can't believe I am the first to review this item. By showing that regional differences in tax rates created different profit opportunities, Regina Grafe has showed us a new way to understand why some regions in Spain thrived and others failed under the Ancien Regime. It wasn't all bad roads. And she has a little wit and humor, in addition to regressions and a very good story. How many people can do the writing AND the numbers? She has worked so hard on this, and it has opened entirely new ways of understanding the 18th century Spanish world. And did I say she has read all the Spanish authors in addition to making friends with cliometrics? This is a the work of a talented person who has a work ethic and creativity. Thank you.

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