Early modern Spain : a social history / James Casey.

Early Modern Spain: A social History explores the solidarities which held the Spanish nation together at this time of conflict and change. The book studies the pattern of fellowship and patronage at the local level which contributed to the notable absence of popular revolts characteristic of other E...

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Main Author: Casey, James, 1944-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Series:Social history of Europe (Routledge (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
  • An inhospitable land
  • The fewness of people
  • The limits of a peasant economy
  • Treasure and the cost of empire
  • Feudal lords and village potentates
  • Patricians and paupers: the urban commonwealth
  • The consolidation of an aristocracy
  • Obedience to the law
  • The policing of the family
  • The community of the faithful.