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Up until this month, if you had said the words “Salt Riots” to the average Spaniard, the only bell it would have rang would have been amongst specialist historians of the Early Modern Period, aware of long-forgotten disturbances in the Province of Biscay between 1631 and 1634 over the excessive, state-mandated increase in the price of the once-valuable condiment in question. (more…)

