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Introduction -- Part I The Iberian Grounds of the Early Modern Globalization of Europe -- Global Context and the Rise of Europe. Iberia and the Atlantic -- Iberian Overseas Expansion and European trade networks -- Domestic Expansion in the Iberian Kingdoms -- Conclusions Part I -- Part II State Building and Institutions -- The Empires of a Composite Monarchy (1521-1598): Problem or Solution? -- The Christalization of a Political Economy, c. 1580-1630 -- Conclusions Part II -- Part III Organizing and Paying for Global Empire, 1598-1668 -- Global Forces and European Competition -- The Luso-Spanish Composite Global Empire, 1598-1640 -- Ruptures, Resilient Empires and Small Divergences -- Conclusions Part III -- Epilogue

This open access book analyses Iberian expansion by using knowledge accumulated in recent years to test some of the most important theories regarding Europe's economic development. Adopting a comparative perspective, it considers the impact of early globalization on Iberian and Western European institutions, social development and political economies. In spite of globalization's minor importance from the commercial perspective before 1750, this book finds its impact decisive for institutional development, political economies, and processes of state-building in Iberia and Europe. The book engages current historiographies and revindicates the need to take the concept of composite monarchies as a point of departure in order to understand the period's economic and social developments, analysing the institutions and societies resulting from contact with Iberian peoples in America and Asia. The outcome is a study that nuances and contests an excessively-negative yet prevalent image of the Iberian societies, explores the difficult relationship between empires and globalization and opens paths for comparisons to other imperial formations.

From the Netherlands to the Ottoman Empire, to Japan and India, this groundbreaking volume confronts the complex and diverse problem of the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia between 1500 and 1914. This series of country case studies from leading economic historians reveals that distinctive features of the fiscal state appeared across the region at different moments in time as a result of multiple independent but often interacting stimuli such as internal competition over resources, European expansion, international trade, globalisation and war. The essays offer a comparative framework for re-examining the causes of economic development across this period and show, for instance, the central role that the more effective fiscal systems of Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries played in the divergence of east and west as well as the very different paths to modernisation taken across the world

Drawing upon economic history, cultural studies, intellectual history and the history of science and medicine, this collection of case studies examines the transatlantic transfer and transformation of goods and ideas, with particular emphasis on their reception in Europe

"Drawing upon economic history, cultural studies, intellectual history and the history of science and medicine, this collection of case studies examines the transatlantic transfer and transformation of goods and ideas, with particular emphasis on their reception in Europe. It critiques and enriches Atlantic history and the history of consumption by highlighting a degree of resistance to unfamiliar goods and information as well as the asymmetrical and violent nature of many types of exchange. It considers agents who forged networks and relations within and beyond the Spanish Empire, including Jesuit missionaries, Sephardic merchants, African laborers and farmers from Oaxaca to Santo Domingo to the Piedmont. While uniting increasingly homogenous and connected societies, the expansion of European horizons also generated diverse interests and divergent material cultures"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Old Regime Aristocracies, Colonial Elites and Economic Development: A Reconsideration -- Northern Europe -- Landlords and Economic Development in England, 1450-1800 -- The Characteristics of an Aristocratic Economy in France, 16th-18th Centuries -- The Economic Role of the Belgian Aristocracy in the 17th and 18th Centuries -- Southern Europe -- From Political and Social Management to Economic Management? Castilian Aristocracy and Economic Development, 1450-1800 -- The Aristocratic Estates in Portugal and their Management, 1600-1834 -- The Structure of Aristocratic Patrimonies in the Kingdom of Naples: Management Strategies and Regional Economic Development, 16th-18th Centuries -- Central and Eastern Europe -- Two Ages of Seigniorial Economy in Brandenburg-Prussia: Structural Innovation in the 16th Century, Productivity Gains in the 18th Century -- Entrepreneurship and Management on the Estates of the Austrian Nobility, 1550-1780 -- Economic Activity of the Polish Nobility and its Consequences: The Manorial System in the Early Modern Times -- Early Modern Russian Estate Management and Economic Development -- Colonial America -- The Role of Aristocratic Management Strategies in the Economic Development of the British North American Chesapeake -- Ephemeral Splendour and A Lengthy Tradition: The Peruvian Aristocracy of the Late Colonial Period -- Brazilian Sugar Planters as Aristocratic Managers, 1550-1825 -- Final Considerations: Aristocracies and Economic Progress under the Ancien Régime -- Selected Bibliography -- Index