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Pedro Lains was a Senior Research Professor at Universidade de Lisboa. He was the author of An Economic History of Portugal (2016), A History of Public Banking in Portugal in the 19th and 20th Centuries (2021) and editor of An Agrarian History of Portugal (2017). He was president of the Portuguese Economic and Social History Association from 2003-2007. Leonor Freire Costa is Professor in Economic History at the ISEG, University of Lisbon. She has published articles on Portugal's economic and financial history in the early modern period. Together with Pedro Lains and Susana Miranda she authored An Economic History of Portugal (2016). Regina Grafe is Professor of Early Modern History at the European University Institute in Florence. She is a global economic and social historian who has published widely on the political economy of Spain and the Spanish Empire including Distant Tyranny: Markets, Power and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800 (2012). Alfonso Herranz-Loncán is Professor of Economic History at the University of Barcelona. He has published articles on the history of transport, infrastructure, public policies, market integration and economic growth in Spain and Latin America during the 19th and 20th centuries. David Igual-Luis is Professor in Medieval History at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. He is a specialist on Social and Economic History. His previous publications include his collaborations in the collective volumes The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe, 1300-1600 (2017), Social Mobility in Medieval Italy, 1100-1500 (2018) and Faire son marché au Moyen Âge. Méditerranée occidentale, XIIIe-XVIe siècle (2018). Vicente Pinilla is Professor in Economic History at the University of Zaragoza and researcher at the Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragon. His previous publications include Wine Globalization (2018), Agricultural Development in the World Periphery: A Global Economic History Approach (2018) and Natural Resources and Economic Growth: Learning from History (2015). Hermínia Vasconcelos Vilar is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Évora. She is author of articles and book chapters on political and economic structures, social mobility and political legitimation in the Iberian kingdoms of the late middle ages.
'Pedro Lains's concern for the economic history of Iberia goes back almost forty years, to the first conference comparing Italy, Portugal, and Spain held in Seville in 1984. He dedicated his academic life to expand and deepen the comparison. This volume, a landmark in comparative history to which leading scholars in the field contributed, is the culmination of that intellectual project.' Leandro Prados-de-la-Escosura, Universidad Carlos III 'This ambitious project to provide an up to date economic history of the lands of the Iberian peninsula and of their overseas settlements and colonies from the Middle Ages to the present is a remarkable achievement. Leading specialists analyze and revise our understanding of Spain and Portugal in relation to the rest of Europe and as a springboard for a global economy—an indispensable starting point for the next generation of historians.' Stuart Schwartz, Yale University 'This massive volume of Iberian economic history draws together for the first time a vast array of the latest research by the most significant scholars. A rich tapestry of national perspectives, from the early middle ages to current times, is enriched by thematic cross-country analyses and tempered by broader European perspectives.' Jaime Reis, Universidade de Lisboa
