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TY  - BOOK
ID  - 53526003
TI  - Distant Tyranny
PY  - 2011
SN  - 9781400840533 1400840538 1283379635 9786613379634 9781283379632 6613379638 0691144842 9780691144849
PB  - Princeton, NJ
DB  - UniCat
KW  - Spain
KW  - Espanja
KW  - Spanien
KW  - Hiszpania
KW  - Spanish State
KW  - España
KW  - Estado Español
KW  - Espagne
KW  - Hispania
KW  - Sefarad
KW  - Sepharad
KW  - Shpanye
KW  - Shpanie
KW  - Reino de España
KW  - Kingdom of Spain
KW  - Reino d'Espanya
KW  - Reinu d'España
KW  - Espainiako Erresuma
KW  - Regne d'Espanya
KW  - Reiaume d'Espanha
KW  - Espanya
KW  - Espanha
KW  - スペイン
KW  - Supein
KW  - イスパニア
KW  - Isupania
KW  - Commerce
KW  - History
KW  - E-books
KW  - Decentralization in government
KW  - Regional disparities
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.
KW  - Disparities, Regional
KW  - Regionalism
KW  - Centralization in government
KW  - Devolution in government
KW  - Government centralization
KW  - Government decentralization
KW  - Government devolution
KW  - Political science
KW  - Central-local government relations
KW  - Federal government
KW  - Local government
KW  - Public administration
KW  - Economic conditions.
KW  - Atlantic trades.
KW  - Ebro.
KW  - Europe.
KW  - European nation-states.
KW  - European state-building.
KW  - Guadalquivir.
KW  - Henry Swinburne.
KW  - Madrid.
KW  - Protestant north.
KW  - Spain.
KW  - Spanish economy.
KW  - Spanish history.
KW  - Spanish market.
KW  - Spanish monarchy.
KW  - absolutism.
KW  - aristocracy.
KW  - bacalao.
KW  - cod trade.
KW  - commercialization.
KW  - consumer culture.
KW  - contractual rule.
KW  - decentralization.
KW  - domestic market integration.
KW  - economic development.
KW  - economists.
KW  - eighteenth-century Spain.
KW  - fargmented authority.
KW  - geography.
KW  - globalization.
KW  - historians.
KW  - historical sociology.
KW  - idleness.
KW  - institutional heritage.
KW  - international economy.
KW  - local autonomy.
KW  - market integration.
KW  - market.
KW  - markets.
KW  - modernity.
KW  - mountain ranges.
KW  - nation-states.
KW  - one price.
KW  - patrimonialism.
KW  - political debates.
KW  - political economy.
KW  - power.
KW  - provincial taxation.
KW  - southern European papists.
KW  - spatial sub-units.
KW  - specialized production.
KW  - state.
KW  - states.
KW  - towns.
KW  - tradable goods.
KW  - trade.
KW  - transoceanic goods.
KW  - transport conditions.
KW  - transport technology.
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AB  - 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.
ER  -