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The Mesta: a study in Spanish economic history, 1273-1836 (Harvard University Press, 1920) online free; Milward, Alan S. and S. B. Saul. The Development of the Economies of Continental Europe: 1850-1914 (1977) pp 215-270; Milward, Alan S. and S. B. Saul. The Economic Development of Continental Europe 1780-1870 (2nd ed. 1979), 552pp; Phillips ...
The Price Revolution, sometimes known as the Spanish Price Revolution, was a series of economic events that occurred between the second half of the 16th century and the first half of the 17th century, and most specifically linked to the high rate of inflation that occurred during this period across Western Europe. Prices rose on average roughly ...
An anachronous map showing areas pertaining to the Spanish Empire at various times over a period exceeding 400 years. Despite the mutual trade exclusion that existed between Spain and Portugal in the early 16th century, Portuguese merchants still acquired goods from the Spanish. This led to a Portuguese dominance on the pepper trade within Europe.
Spanish miracle: A period of economic growth began. 1973: Spanish miracle: The period ended. 1975: History of Spain (1975–present) 6 November: The Green March forced Spain to hand over its last remaining colonial possession, Spanish Sahara, to Morocco. 20 November: Francisco Franco died; the monarchy was restored to Juan Carlos I of Spain ...
Concurrent with the military and economic issues there was a depopulation in metropolitan Spain. The Spanish decline was a historical process simultaneous to the purpoted [2] general crisis of the 17th century that swept most of Eurasia, but which was especially serious for Spain.
The Spanish imperial economy's major global impact was silver mining. The mines in Peru and Mexico were in the hands of a few elite mining entrepreneurs with access to capital and a stomach for the risk that mining entailed. They operated under a system of royal licensing, since the crown held the rights to subsoil wealth.
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The 142 m Torre de Madrid, built in 1957, heralded the "Spanish Miracle".. The Spanish miracle (Spanish: el milagro español) refers to a period of exceptionally rapid development and growth across all major areas of economic activity in Spain during the latter part of the Francoist regime, 1959 to 1974, [1] in which GDP averaged a 6.5 percent growth rate per year, [2] and was itself part of a ...