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  • The Catalan Mas

    by Rosa Congost (ed.), Llorenç Ferrer, Pere Gifre, Rosa Lluch, Elvis Mallorquí, Enric Saguer ...
    Series series BHR (Biblioteca d'Història Rural)
    Anyone who travels today through the Catalan territory will be drawn to several farmhouses that not only show their age, but the characteristic features of a wealthy peasantry. If they are on a leisure trip, it is even possible that they have a meal or even spend some nights in one of these houses, and perhaps in that solitude, they will be able to admire the wild nature that surrounds them. But ... Read more

    $3.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Property Rights in Land

    Issues in social, economic and global history

    Edited by Rosa Congost, Jorge Gelman, Rui Santos ...
    Series series Perspectives in Economic and Social History
    Property Rights in Land widens our understanding of property rights by looking through the lenses of social history and sociology, discussing mainstream theory of new institutional economics and the derived grand narrative of economic development.As neo-institutional development theory has become a narrative in global history and political economy, the problem of promoting global development has ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Distant Tyranny

    Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800

    by Regina Grafe ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    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 ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • An Economic History of Portugal, 1143–2010

    by Leonor Freire Costa, Pedro Lains, Susana Münch Miranda ...
    This book offers a fascinating exploration of the evolution of the Portuguese economy over the course of eight centuries, from the foundation of the kingdom in 1143, when political boundaries began to take shape in the midst of the Christian Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula, and the formation of an empire, to the integration of the nation into the European Communities and the Economic and ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • The History of Capitalism in Mexico

    Its Origins, 1521–1763

    by Enrique Semo ...
    Translated by Lidia Lozano ...
    Series series LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series
    What lies at the center of the Mexican colonial experience? Should Mexican colonial society be construed as a theoretical monolith, capitalist from its inception, or was it essentially feudal, as traditional historiography viewed it? In this pathfinding study, Enrique Semo offers a fresh vision: that the conflicting social formations of capitalism, feudalism, and tributary despotism provided the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Understanding Latin America: A Decoding Guide

    by Alfredo Toro Hardy ...
    From afar, Latin America looks like a blurry tableau: devoid of defining lines, particularities and nuances. Little is understood about the idiosyncrasies of Latin-Americans, their cultural identity and social values. Differences between Brazilians and Spanish Americans, or amid the diverse Spanish American countries, are not sufficiently understood. Even less is known about the amplitude of the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • A History of Portuguese Economic Thought

    by Antonio Almodovar, Jose Luis Cardoso ...
    Series series The Routledge History of Economic Thought
    A History of Portuguese Economic Thought offers the first account in English of the development of economic thought in Portugal. The authors adopt a comparative approach to analyse how economic doctrine, theories and policies have been disseminated and assimilated by Portuguese economists in different periods. They assess the influence on Portuguese economic thought of major economists such as ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Great Leveler

    Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

    by Walter Scheidel ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • A Social History of Modern Spain

    by Adrian Shubert ...
    Insightful and accessible, A Social History of Modern Spain is the first comprehensive social history of modern Spain in any language. Adrian Shubert analyzes the social development of Spain since 1800. He explores the social conflicts at the root of the Spanish Civil War and how that war and the subsequent changes from democracy to Franco and back again have shaped the social relations of the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • A Concise History of Spain

    by William D. Phillips, Jr, Carla Rahn Phillips ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    The rich cultural and political life of Spain has emerged from its complex history, from the diversity of its peoples, and from continual contact with outside influences. This book traces that history from prehistoric times to the present, focusing particularly on culture, society, politics, and personalities. Written in an engaging style, it introduces readers to the key themes that have shaped ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Colonial Legacies

    The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History

    Edited by Jeremy Adelman ...
    More than other Atlantic societies, Latin America is shackled to its past. This collection is an exploration of the binding historical legacies--the making of slavery, patrimonial absolutist states, backward agriculture and the imprint of the Enlightenment--with which Latin America continues to grapple.Leading writers and scholars reflect on how this heritage emerged from colonial institutions and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Oxford History of Mexico

    by William Beezley; Michael Meyer ...
    The Oxford History of Mexico is a narrative history of the events, institutions and characters that have shaped Mexican history from the reign of the Aztecs through the twenty-first century. When the hardcover edition released in 2000, it was praised for both its breadth and depth--all aspects of Mexican history, from religion to technology, ethnicity, ecology and mass media, are analyzed with ... Read more

    $28.79 USD