En El Corazon del Mar

In the sixteenth century, in the eyes of the ruling class, land, arable land, remained the basis of all prosperity. As the dignitary rose in rank, he acquired the rights to more and larger areas of real estate. Theoretically, nobody was the owner of the land. The land belonged to the collective owner, calpulli, to public institutions such as temples, or to the city itself. There was no private ownership of the land, there was collective ownership with individual right of use.

El desarrollo de los sistemas hacendísticos constituye uno de los rasgos de la historia europea a lo largo del siglo XVII. En el caso castellano la fiscalidad figura entre las causas que se suelen alegar para explicar la decadencia del reino. La presente obra analiza el principal dacio de la monarquía durante buena parte del siglo, el servicio de millones, atendiendo a los rasgos de la organización creada para su cobro y al reparto geográfico de las recaudaciones. Esto arroja nueva luz sobre esta importante figura fiscal y la hacienda castellana en un periodo crucial de su historia.

Fruto de la reflexion de varios anos sobre la naturaleza del oficio de la historia de la modernidad, este libro se situa en las fronteras de la teoria y de la investigacion historica. Se ofrecen algunas pautas para entender su genesis y apuntar algunos de sus retos y posibilidades actuales. Posee un caracter exploratorio ya que no se intenta proporcionar una solucion definitiva a los problemas vislumbrados. Mas bien su intencion es la de abrir preguntas, plantear algunas hipotesis e invitar al dialogo para proseguir o iniciar nuevas investigaciones historiograficas. Se trata basicamente de un ...

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