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  • 17 - The Economic History of Iberia in a Wider Context, 1500–1800

  • from Part II - Globalization and Enlightenment, 1500–1800
  • General editor Pedro Lains, Universidade de Lisboa
  • Edited by Leonor Freire Costa, Universidade de Lisboa, Regina Grafe, European University Institute, Florence, Alfonso Herranz-Loncán, Universitat de Barcelona, David Igual-Luis, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Vicente Pinilla, Universidad de Zaragoza, Hermínia Vasconcelos Vilar, Universidade de Évora, Portugal
  • Book:
    An Economic History of the Iberian Peninsula, 700–2000
    Published online:
    22 February 2024
    Print publication:
    29 February 2024, pp 443-470

  • Summary

    This chapter aims at placing the history of Spain and Portugal in a global context to revise many of the commonplaces that have been present for centuries about the history of both countries. It also explains this history in a comparative perspective with reference to other European countries as well as other imperial formations. Special attention is given to the different institutional systems and the political fragmentation of the Iberian Peninsula, as well as to the evolution of the different models of regional development. This also makes it possible to break with nationalizing visions of its economic performance, while the different regional trajectories and their connections are interpreted as part of a peninsular system that does not differ qualitatively from that of other regions of Europe, particularly Mediterranean Europe.The result is a more nuanced, less pessimistic – far from exceptionalism – and more realistic picture of peninsular history and a reflection on how that history has been influenced by imperial systems and globalization.