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La Cataluña de Alonso Quijano

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  • Blasco, Joan Giménez I

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Miguel de Cervantes placed some passages of his masterpiece in Catalonia. Nevertheless, the features he uses to approach the Catalan reality -halfwaybetween 16th and 17th centuries- are obviously influenced by Don Quixote's personality. At that time, the Catalan economy was making its way in every sphere of activity which could operate at a profit. Far away from that magnificent Middle Ages, agriculture had to be rearranged and it was necessary to promote the most competitive products and to try to find markets for them. New generations devoted themselves to this purpose, people who were equally distant from the old patrician oligarchies and from the fickleness of the marginal nobility. They were laying, perhaps without knowing it, the path to modernity.

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  • Blasco, Joan Giménez I, 2005. "La Cataluña de Alonso Quijano," Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 23(S1), pages 409-424, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:reveco:v:23:y:2005:i:s1:p:409-424_01
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