Umfang:
1 online resource (531 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789811308338
Serie:
Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History Series
Inhalt:
Iberian World Empires and the Globalization of Europe 1415-1668 -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Graphs -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Part I: The Iberian Grounds of the Early Modern Globalization of Europe -- Chapter 1: Global Context and the Rise of Europe: Iberia and the Atlantic -- Global Links and International Exchanges in Europe and the Iberian Peninsula -- The Global Forces and the Portuguese Atlantic Expansion -- Towards a European Poly-nuclear Recovery -- European Recovery and Property Rights -- The Iberian Peninsula -- Institutions, Political Economies, and Regional Forces -- Social Conflicts and Political Regimes -- Aristocratic Lineages, Local Oligarchies, and Conflict -- Isabella and Fernando: From Crisis to War and Expansion -- Bargaining Power -- Foreign Wars for Domestic Peace -- Portugal: The Bases for a Precocious and Enduring Political Stability -- Iberian State Formation in European Perspective -- Comunidades and Germanías -- Western Monarchies. The Iberian Kingdoms in Comparative European Perspective -- Chapter 2: Iberian Overseas Expansion and European Trade Networks -- Sailing the Atlantic, Conquering America -- Challenges and Tools -- Political Control, Bargaining, Resistance, and Environmental Failures -- The Portuguese Empire and Asia: Bargaining, Diversity, and Limits -- Overseas Trade and European Economies, 1492-1580 -- Silver and the Price Revolution -- Markets and Trade Networks -- Iberia in the Global Economy: Lowering Transaction Costs -- An Export Economy? -- A Semi-periphery of Europe? Domestic Trade and Institutional Improvements -- Chapter 3: Domestic Expansion in the Iberian Kingdoms -- A Technological Crossroad -- Local Institutions, Regional Ecosystems, and Land Property Rights -- Economic Expansion in a Pre-industrial Society -- Growth and Development.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9789811308321
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789811308321
Sprache:
Englisch
