THE LIBRARY OF IBERIAN RESOURCES ONLINE
Madrid and the Spanish Economy,
1560-1850
David R. Ringrose
Contents
List of Tables, Figures,
and Maps [x]
Acknowledgments [xvii]
Chapter 1. Introduction: Madrid and Spain,
1560-1850 1
PART ONE: MADRID
Chapter 2. Population and Market Trends: A
Long-Term Profile [19]
Chapter 3. Structure and Evolution of the
Urban Population [34]
I. Residents, Immigrants, and Age-Sex Distribution [34]
II. Chronological Perspective on Demographic Structure [43]
III. Geography of Migration [48]
IV. Why Migration? [54]
V. Demographic and Economic Trends after 1740 [58]
VI. Implications of Demographic Structure and Change [61]
Chapter 4. The Urban Economy in the Eighteenth
Century: Occupations, Income, and Consumption [66]
I. Occupations [66]
II. Income [71]
III. Consumption [81]
IV. Implications [85]
Chapter 5. Changes in the Urban Economy, Seventeenth
Through Nineteenth Centuries [88]
I. The Seventeenth Century [88]
II. Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Changes [91]
III. The Government and the Urban Economy [102]
IV. Conclusion [105]
Chapter 6. The City as Market: The Evolution
of Consumption [108]
I. Consumption of Basic Staples, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries
[109]
II. Per-Capita Consumption and Evolution of the Market for Agricultural
Commodities [119]
III. Structure of the Urban Market [124]
IV. Urban Trade and Economic Dualism [134]
PART TWO: MADRID AND RURAL CASTILE
Chapter 7. Markets, Merchants, Bureaucrats:
The Organization of Supply [143]
I. Wheat and Bread [144]
II. Other Staple Commodities [154]
III. Conclusion [163]
Chapter 8. The Countryside and the City: Context
and Contact in the Rural Economy [164]
I. The Rural Context [164]
II. Regional Market Structures [174]
III. The Producers in the Market Network [181]
IV. Conclusion [190]
Chapter 9. The Geography of Urban Influence in
Castile [193]
I. Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century Expansion of Influence [194]
II. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Supply Zones [202]
III. General Observations [211]
PART THREE: MADRID AND THE SPANISH ECONOMY
Chapter 10. Between Castile and the Sea:
The Coastal Fringe [215]
I. From Barcelona to Sevilla [219]
II. The Northern Littoral [245]
III. Conclusion [251]
Chapter 11. The Castilian Urban Network: Madrid
and the Decline of Toledo [253]
I. The Urban Network [253]
II. A Measure of Change: Population and Migration [254]
III. Madrid Captures the Regional Supply Market [258]
IV. The Reorientation of Commerce and the Collapse of Industry in Toledo
[266]
V. General Considerations [273]
Chapter 12. The Urban Network: Madrid and the
Castilian Towns [278]
I. Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries: The Collapse of the Urban
Network [281]
II. The Later Seventeenth Century in Castile [288]
III. The Eighteenth Century [294]
IV. Madrid: Link Between Interior and Periphery [306]
Chapter 13. Conclusion: Spain and the Heritage
of Madrid [311]
I. Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: The Hapsburg Empire [312]
II. The Eighteenth Century: Bourbon Revival [316]
III. The Nineteenth Century: An Era of Retrenchment 324
Appendix A [331]
Appendix B [334]
Appendix C [338]
Appendix D [349]
Appendix E [366]
Appendix F [372]
Bibliography [375]
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