The aim of this work is to analyse the spatial distribution of the interregional migration in Spain during the period of economic development and structural change from the last decades of the XIXth century to 1930. The empirical approach reveals that a large part of migrants moved towards very close destinations. We also find that the spatial distribution of the internal migration shows a high spatial focusing, most in-migrants are moving selectively to only a few destinations while most out-migrants are leaving only a few origins. Finally, comparing with the less focused migration in 1960–1970, it is argued that these findings are related with the process of geographical concentration and the later dispersion of the Spanish economic development and employment opportunities during the XIX and XX centuries whose turning point is around 1950 or 1960.

Wood has always been and will continue being a material used bay man in thousands of different ways, but it has barely received the attention it descrves from economic historians. This article aims to show the great variety of economic problems related to wood as well as to illustrate the need to carry out further research on this matter. Forest, industrial and commercial aspects of wood in Spain from mid-XIX to mid-XX century, taking into account the changes produced in wood use and in the evolution of international markets, are analysed. The most important conclusions of die study include die «lumbering» of Spanish forest production, the increase and spread of sawmills, the complementing of national production with imported timber and die self-sufficient descapitalisation of die autharchic years.

This paper reconstructs and examines the growth strategies displayed by the German chemical industry in Spain between 1880 and 1936: exports and direct investment. Elsewhere both became instrumental for the transfer of technology and managerial skills, particularly after World War I. In order to understand why the effects of the first world chemical investor were so poor on the Spanish industry, the German strategies are analyzed in the light of those followed elsewhere. Furthermore, those policies applied both by the Spanish firms and Administration to encourage the rise and development of the local industry are also examined.

Industrial Revolution advance supposed the loss of a great part of traditional olive oil markets, however it caused some other possibilities, other markets, that up to that moment, the were unknown or the had such a small size that they were not considerable for this industry. This is the case of tinned fish, where olive oil was one of the most important inputs. This work has the following aims: first, to analyse the behaviour of Spanish olive oil in this market, paying attention to Norwegian tinned industry; second, to value the meaning of the companies and regions that take part; third, to compare the exports to this country with the exports to more important markets for Spanish olive oil.

The main aim of this paper is to analyse the policy of the Tucuman's branch of the Bank of London and River Plate before the WWI. The historiography has stated that the Bank of London had a very conservative attitude related to the manufactures and it was more concerned about agro-export business. This policy, followed by all the private banks, and the underdeveloped capital market share the responsibility for the Argentine industrialization failure. However, this is not the whole story. I show in this paper the case of the sugar industry in Tucuman that, circumscribed to the domestic market, obtained important benefits from the Bank of London. This fact was due to the financial boom caused by the increase in exports at the beginning of the century and to the economic, social and ideological realms in Tucuman which led the Bank of London to a policy shift.