{"product_id":"spain-europe-and-the-spanish-miracle-1700-1900-paperback-9780521646307","title":"Spain, Europe, and the 'Spanish Miracle', 1700–1900 (Paperback) 9780521646307","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSpain, Europe, and the 'Spanish Miracle', 1700–1900\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA challenging re-examination of Spanish history, questioning orthodoxies about Spain's economy and society.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid R. Ringrose (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521646307, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 26 November 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e456 pages, 8 maps  19 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.3 x 2.9 cm, 0.73 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"In this pathbreaking book, Rongrose not only analyzes a range of empirical evidence, but he urges a redfinition of the way in which scholars examine Spanish economic history.\"   Carla Rahn Philips, Journal of Interdisciplinary History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDavid Ringrose here re-examines the history of Spain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He challenges the pessimism of prevailing assumptions about Spanish history, and its conventional separation into pre- and post-Napoleonic eras. Spain, Europe, and the 'Spanish Miracle', 1700–1900 also questions the importance of the empire for Spain's own economy, suggesting instead that Spain evolved as part of Europe; indeed, some of the recently documented modernisation of the nineteenth century was already well under way in the eighteenth. In addition, the emergence of a governing élite closely tied to provincial society is placed in the context of traditional networks of patronage based upon close-knit family ties. Such a perspective makes the transitions of the 1930s and 1970s easier to explain. This important and challenging book will change our understanding of the history of modern Spain.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. The Problems of Perception: 1. Perceptions and perspectives\u003cbr\u003e 2. Focusing the problem\u003cbr\u003e 3. Glimpses of the Spanish economy\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Peninsular Spain and a Changing World: 4. The Indies trade and a peninsular economy to 1763\u003cbr\u003e 5. Indies trade and peninsular economy between 18th and 19th centuries: reform, crisis, adaptation\u003cbr\u003e 6. Trade, economic expansion, European context\u003cbr\u003e 7. From enlightenment to commodity: redefining resources\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Alternative Responses to a Changing World: 8. The Mediterranean urban system: trade, hierarchy, trends\u003cbr\u003e 9. Cantabrian Spain: from Guípuzcoa to Galicia\u003cbr\u003e capital city, markets, and Castillian interior\u003cbr\u003e 10. Towns and cities in Andalusia\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Networks, Provincial Elites and Central Authority: 11. A narrative context\u003cbr\u003e 12. Basic institutions of political and economic life: family, town, office\u003cbr\u003e 13. Office, state, and local elites, seventeenth-nineteenth centuries\u003cbr\u003e 14. Conclusion: trends, events, perceptions.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Modern%20history%20to%2020th%20century:%20c%201700%20to%20c%201900%20%5BHBLL%5D%22\"\u003eHBLL\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46251977048344,"sku":"9780521646307","price":46.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521646307i.jpg?v=1691927736","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/spain-europe-and-the-spanish-miracle-1700-1900-paperback-9780521646307","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}