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This is a collection of revisionist essays on the economic and social history of seventeenth-century Castile by Spanish historians. Since the 1970s an explosion of historical scholarship in Spain, employing new techniques, approached and sources, has transformed our knowledge of the Castilian past. Hardly any of this research has been absorbed into non-specialist scholarship outside Spain, thereby diminishing the value of any analysis of European economic development that fails to take account of it. The essays are important in showing the apparently monolithic seventeenth-century depression in Castile to have been far from uniform in intensity, chronology or space and in their emphasis on responses to the crisis and on explanations for failure to recover from crisis which was decisive for Spain's divergence from other Western European developments.
Contents
Introduction; 1. Castile 1580-1650: economic crisis and the policy of 'reform' Angel Garcia Sanz; 2. The plague in Castile at the end of the sixteenth century and its consequences Vicente Perez Moreda; 3. The agrarian 'depression' in Castile in the seventeenth century Gonzalo Anes; 4. Castilian agriculture in the seventeenth century: depression, or 'readjustment and adaptation'? Enrique Llopis Agelan; 5. Wool exports, transhumance and land use in Castile in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries L. M. Bilbao and E. Fernandez de Pinedo; 6. Andalusia and the crisis of the Indies trade, 1616-1720 A. Garcia-Baquero Gonzalez; 7. The textile industry in the economy of Cordoba at the end of the seventeenth and the start of the eighteenth centuries: a frustrated recovery Jose Ignacio Fortea Perez.
