Title: The Performance of the Spanish State During the Eighteenth Century
Subtitle: A Period of Important Geopolitical and Socioeconomic Challenges
Subject Classification:  History, Economics and Finance, War and Conflict  
BIC Classification: KCH, JPA
BISAC Classification: HIS045000, HIS037040, BUS021000
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Dec 2026
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-83711-913-4
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-83711-914-1

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Description

The eighteenth century presented the Spanish state with profound geopolitical and socioeconomic challenges that tested its capacity to act and endure. While many historical accounts examine these pressures in isolation, this monograph offers a vital, integrated analysis. It argues that the performance of the state can only be fully understood by simultaneously considering its international actions and its domestic strategies for economic and social progress. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book freviews the fiscal, demographic, and political factors that shaped Spanish power, then examines how this capacity was deployed to face armed conflicts, manage a vast empire, and engage with the Enlightenment’s new ideas of progress. By weaving together military expenditure with public investment and geopolitical strategy with social policy, this work provides a nuanced and comprehensive assessment of the Spanish state's successes and failures. It is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of early modern European history, economic history, and the development of the modern state.

Biography

Author(s):  The author is Honorary Professor in the Department of Applied & Structural Economics & History at the Complutense University of Madrid. A leading scholar of Spanish economic history, his research focuses on public finance, state formation, and institutional development in the early modern period. He holds a PhD in Economics, and his doctoral thesis, *The Financing of the Spanish Royal Household, 1561–1808*, was recognised by the International Economic History Association as one of the best in its field.

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