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Iberian World Empires and the Globalization of Europe 1415–1668

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-0833-8

ISBN: 978-981-13-0832-1

Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore - Springer Journals

Mar 14, 2019

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Global Context and the Rise of Europe: Iberia and the Atlantic

Yun-Casalilla, Bartolomé

Pages: 5 –49

[This chapter sets the bases for an understanding of Iberian institutions and political and economic history. It describes such institutions within a European framework and makes comparisons in order to explain Iberian overseas expansion. That process, it is argued, was rooted in the internal...
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Iberian Overseas Expansion and European Trade Networks

Yun-Casalilla, Bartolomé

Pages: 51 –97

[This chapter investigates Portuguese and Castilian overseas expansion by introducing some comparisons between the two. Contrary to traditional stereotypes, Iberian societies were technically and administratively as well-endowed as any others in Europe for the expansion and the conquest of new...
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Domestic Expansion in the Iberian Kingdoms

Yun-Casalilla, Bartolomé

Pages: 99 –143

[This chapter explains sixteenth-century growth in Iberia. It argues against the idea of technological and economic backwardness and shows the notable dynamism of both the agrarian sector and the cities of the interior. Also against those common places, this chapter argues that interregional...
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The Empires of a Composite Monarchy, 1521–1598: Problem or Solution?

Yun-Casalilla, Bartolomé

Pages: 155 –209

[This chapter sheds new light on the way the two empires accentuated social tensions in Iberia and stresses—with new details and reasoning—the way they contributed to the persistence of social structures, institutions, and property rights as well as to reshaping a conflictive pact between the...
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The Crystallization of a Political Economy, c. 1580–1630

Yun-Casalilla, Bartolomé

Pages: 211 –256

[This chapter takes a comparative perspective to criticize some common stereotypes in the history of Iberia. It analyses the formal institutions that were important for the allocation of resources and accents the way informal institutions such as the family and the lineage affected economic...
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Global Forces and European Competition

Yun-Casalilla, Bartolomé

Pages: 271 –321

[This chapter studies Western European political systems and institutional development in comparative perspective to show the impact of religious ruptures on economic evolution. It explains how American silver and the Habsburg wars—from 1581 involving also the Portuguese empire—acted in a series...
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The Luso-Spanish Composite Global Empire, 1598–1640

Yun-Casalilla, Bartolomé

Pages: 323 –376

[Breaking with a tradition of studying the Spanish and the Portuguese empires separately, this chapter adopts a global perspective to analyse imperial networks and the way family and personal relations and informal institutions articulated them. The asymmetries in information and agency at a...
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Ruptures, Resilient Empires, and Small Divergences

Yun-Casalilla, Bartolomé

Pages: 377 –434

[This chapter analyses how war effort, in part because of empires’ needs, challenged the conflictive pact in the different centres of the composite monarchy. It does so by selecting four areas: Castile, Catalonia, Portugal, and America. The comparison between Catalonia and Portugal stresses the...

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