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La publicación de El moderno sistema mundial supuso el comienzo de una verdadera revolución en la historiografía y un fuerte impulso al renacimiento de la sociología histórica. Más allá de las discrepancias y las polémicas a las que ha dado origen, esta obra es ya un clásico que constituye un ambicioso intento de reconstruir la historia de la actual sociedad capitalista partiendo de una perspectiva global. Su argumento central es que el moderno sistema mundial toma la forma de una economía-mundo capitalista, que tuvo su génesis en Europa en el siglo XVI e implicó la...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

A les darreries de l'edat mitjana, el patrimoni de la Corona a les comarques de la Vall d'Albaida i l'Alcoià estava format per les viles d'Ontinyent, Alcoi, Biar, Bocairent i Penàguila, enquadrades administrativament per les seues respectives batllies locals. D'elles extreia la monarquia unes rendes d'accentuat caràcter agrari, on predominaven el terç-delme, els monopolis reials -forns, molins, carnisseries- i els tributs fixos de la peita i la cena. El caràcter estable dels tipus impositius d'aquests drets i les modalitats de la seua gestió -arrendaments, emfiteusi- limitaven la...