The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
Subtitle: New Perspectives on the Economic and Social History of Seventeenth-Century Spain (Past and Present Publications)
Contributors: I. A. A. Thompson (Editor); Bartolomi Yun Casalilla (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 29, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780521416245
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; Business/Economics; Agricultural Economics; Social conditions; Business & Economics; History - General History; Europe - Spain & Portugal; Spain; Economic Conditions; Economic History; Business & Economics / Economic Conditions; Business & Economics / Economic History; Business & Economics-Economic History; History-Europe - Spain & Portugal; Spain--Economic conditions; 17th century; Agriculture; Economic aspects; History
First sentence: For the last ten years or so in Spanish historiography the concepts of 'general crisis' and 'decadence', traditionally held to be characteristics applicable to the Spanish economy in the seventeenth century, have been undergoing revision.