Nadia Fernández de Pinedo Echevarría

Bio: Nadia Fernández de Pinedo Echevarría is an academic researcher from Autonomous University of Madrid. The author has contributed to research in topics: Value (economics). The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 20 citations.

Distribution of english textiles in the Spanish market at the beginning of 18th century

Abstract: This article examines the marketing and distribution of foreign fabric, predominantly English, in the northern sub-plateau of Spain at the beginning of the 18th century using information from a fiscal source. The official tax record used in this study was a specific and special tax levied on cloth imported from countries with which Spain was at war. The details of this tax shed more light on a hotly debated topic with respect to transport and networks in modern Spain and make it possible to analyze and quantify the physical volume as well as the value and the destination of textiles.

The Rise of Financial Capitalism: International Capital Markets in the Age of Reason . By Larry Neal · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. ix + 278 pp. Tables, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $37.50, ISBN 0-521-38205-X.

Abstract: ships. Rarely did KKR risk much of its own money. When the partnership lost momentum, its backing quickly eroded, exposing it as a small, far less potent entity than might have been imagined from a perusal of its works. Important as a chronicle of an era, this work, much more than Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's Barbarians at the Gate (1990), the uncited account of the takeover of RJR Nabisco, will become the first reference for scholars treating the subject. Unfortunately, its strong point—the primary source material—is not supplemented by a bibliography of secondary sources. As the literature is growing in the field, such an inclusion would have been most useful.

The early modern period

Abstract: This History of Portugal has the advantage of presenting in one single volume a comprehensive vision of the past, from the foundation of the kingdom to contemporary history. It is not a history written by one single author, and thus follows a different approach from that of Oliveira Marques, who clearly stands as the previous most professional and efficient historian engaging with this genre. The decision was the right one: each of the three authors knows his period of specialization well. It is increasingly difficult nowadays for one single author to assimilate all the bibliography covering nine centuries. In general, this History of Portugal integrates the most recent bibliography well. But it suffers from two problems: the crucial issues of collective identity and nation building, with their plural forms, continuities and discontinuities, are neither clearly raised nor addressed in a systematic way, while they remain the object of constant reflection by philosophers, anthropologists, writers and historians; the initial promise to combine political, economic, social and cultural history is not fulfilled. I understand that there were constraints of space – the Middle Ages received 182 pages, the early modern period 240 and modern history 340 pages – but structure is always a matter of choice. The most balanced section is the modern one: Rui Ramos’s text reads very well, combining political, economic, social, demographic and cultural data in an efficient way. The main issues are present. The only problem, which is not a minor one, is the conservative bias of his political approach: popular movements do not really exist in his account, all political changes or continuities are analyzed from the perspective of political factions, the manipulation of the disorganized population, or the internal feuds of the power elite. One wonders how these manipulative elites were generated in the first place, and how they managed to exercise their power over such an inorganic population. The section written by Bernardo Vasconcelos e Sousa is also efficient, covering the main issues of the organization of the monarchy, addressing the different powers involved and searching for the origins of the expansion. The distribution of the population and the definition of its structure are other topics touched upon, although the question of its ethnic origins might have been more fully addressed, due to the significant number of studies on this issue in Portugal and Europe, perhaps one of the most recently developed fields in medieval studies (Wolfram, Pohl, Gillett, Noble, Hen). Although the crisis or revolution of 1383-5 is tackled well, history from below might have been better integrated into this section. But this is really the main problem concerning the vision of the early modern period presented by Nuno Monteiro. I have to concentrate on this period, since this was specifically requested from me. The model of analysis is almost exclusively political and institutional, contradicting the initial promise. This is not the acclaimed British narrative model, which has accommodated the theoretical and methodological acquisitions of the Annales, Past and Present and German Sozialgeschichte, not to mention gender studies, and linguistic and psychoanalytic turns. It is sufficient to read authors so ideologically diverse as Christopher Bayly, Tim Blanning or Richard Evans to perceive the shared purpose of a comprehensive approach in the different scales they deal with. The concentration of this section on the architecture of powers is overwhelmingly structured by the relationship between the king and the aristocracy (reduced to the titled nobility), which was the focus of Nuno Monteiro’s major work on the ‘Big Noble Houses’ in Portugal.

The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: New Perspectives on the Economic and Social History of Seventeenth-Century Spain

Abstract: Introduction 1. Castile 1580-1650: economic crisis and the policy of 'reform' Angel Garcia Sanz 2. The plague in Castile at the end of the sixteenth century and its consequences Vicente Perez Moreda 3. The agrarian 'depression' in Castile in the seventeenth century Gonzalo Anes 4. Castilian agriculture in the seventeenth century: depression, or 'readjustment and adaptation'? Enrique Llopis Agelan 5. Wool exports, transhumance and land use in Castile in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries L. M. Bilbao and E. Fernandez de Pinedo 6. Andalusia and the crisis of the Indies trade, 1616-1720 A. Garcia-Baquero Gonzalez 7. The textile industry in the economy of Cordoba at the end of the seventeenth and the start of the eighteenth centuries: a frustrated recovery Jose Ignacio Fortea Perez.