caa a22 4500 388052457 CHVBK 20180307125057.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199803 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0212610900007126 doi S0212610900007126 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0212610900007126 The Spanish 1898 Disaster: The Drift towards Natonal-Protectionism [Elektronische Daten] Two interrelated ideas are developed in this essay: first, that the consequences for the Spanish economy of loosing the last colonies —Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines— at the end of the nineteenth century were relatively small, and that it hardly can be regarded, as many historians have done as the Disaster of 1898. Second, that despite its small overall direct impact on the Spanish economy, the independence wars fought with the colonies, and the defeat at the hands of the Americans in 1898, started a process of intense political nationalism that resulted in the adoption of western Europe's most stringent autarchy at the beginning of the twentieth century. The colonial Disaster was therefore, an indirect one. Its economic consequences were first felt by Bentham's <<ruling few>> —in Spain's case, the wheat, flour, and textile traders of Castile and Catalonia— and later reached the <<subject many>> by way of their influence on the adoption of extreme protective measures (<<integral protection>>, as it became known by Spanish nationalists) facilitated by the general climate caused by the colonial loss. Copyright © Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 1998 Fraile Pedro Department of Economics Escribano Alvaro Department of Statistics and Econometrics Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History Cambridge University Press 16/1(1998-03), 265-290 0212-6109 16:1<265 1998 16 RHE https://doi.org/10.1017/S0212610900007126 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0212610900007126 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fraile Pedro Department of Economics NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Escribano Alvaro Department of Statistics and Econometrics NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History Cambridge University Press 16/1(1998-03), 265-290 0212-6109 16:1<265 1998 16 RHE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge