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  2. List of sovereign states in the 1850s - Wikipedia

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    Germany – German Empire (to November 29, 1850) Goust – Republic of Goust; State of Buenos Aires (from September 11, 1852) Taiping Heavenly Kingdom - Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace (from January 11, 1851) Tavolara – Kingdom of Tavolara

  3. History of science and technology in Spain - Wikipedia

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    Regardless of the adverse circumstances prevailing in the late 18th and early 19th centuries (es: crisis del Antiguo Régimen), the key to what was more and more coming to be perceived as "Spanish backwardness" was the survival of certain pre-industrial socio-economic structures, at the decisive moment when the Industrial Revolution began in ...

  4. Industrialisation - Wikipedia

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    The effect of industrialisation shown by rising income levels in the 19th century, including gross national product at purchasing power parity per capita between 1750 and 1900 in 1990 U.S. dollars for the First World, including Western Europe, United States, Canada and Japan, and Third World nations of Europe, Southern Asia, Africa, and Latin America [1] The effect of industrialisation is also ...

  5. Economic history of Spain - Wikipedia

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    Pre-Civil War industrial production levels were regained in the early 1950s, though agricultural output remained below prewar levels until 1958. [11] A further impetus to economic liberalization came from the September 1953 signing of a mutual defense agreement, the Pact of Madrid, between the United States and Spain.

  6. History of industrialisation - Wikipedia

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    Oil-rich countries saw similar failures in their economic choices. An EIA report stated that OPEC member nations were projected to earn a net amount of $1.251 trillion in 2008 from their oil exports. [15] Because oil is both important and expensive, regions that had big reserves of oil had huge liquidity incomes. However, this was rarely ...

  7. Historiography of Colonial Spanish America - Wikipedia

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    A 17th–century Dutch map of the Americas. The historiography of Spanish America in multiple languages is vast and has a long history. [1] [2] [3] It dates back to the early sixteenth century with multiple competing accounts of the conquest, Spaniards’ eighteenth-century attempts to discover how to reverse the decline of its empire, [4] and people of Spanish descent born in the Americas ...

  8. Spanish literature - Wikipedia

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    Mendoza was also the first to introduce the sonnet into Spanish literature. The last great poet of the Middle Ages is Jorge Manrique. He is famous for his work which laments the death of his father, Coplas a la muerte de su padre. In this piece, Manrique shows classical feelings by expressing himself in a universal manner (all things come to an ...

  9. History of the cotton industry in Catalonia - Wikipedia

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    Although the goal of the Agricultural Colonies Acts of 1855, 1866 and 1868 was to transform and modernise the Spanish countryside, industrial colonies would be covered by the Acts (and therefore exempt from industrial taxes for 10–25 years and workers exempt from military service) if they were established in a rural area. [10]