The economic consequences of the Spanish Reconquest: the long-term effects of Medieval conquest and colonization
“The history of no other European people has been so decisively modified by a frontier as Castile, for century after century” –Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz, in Burns (1989, p. 325). Abstract This paper shows that a historical process that ended more than five centuries ago, the Reconquest, is very important to explain Spanish regional economic development down to
