id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-266771-zesp6q0w Pablo-Martí, Federico Complex networks to understand the past: the case of roads in Bourbon Spain 2020-10-06 .txt text/plain 20770 1023 55 We build a new, complete map of the main roads at the beginning of the eighteenth century along with the matrix of transport costs for all the important towns describing the communications network. The second statement posits that the new roads generated significant changes in the transport network that led to improving the communications of Madrid with the periphery instead of activating the growth of the interior regions (Ringrose 1972; Anes 1974; Carr 1978; Madrazo Madrazo 1984b) . To verify this statement, quite consolidated in the literature though not entirely (Grafe 2012), we will use three hypotheses: H2.A 'The newly paved roads produced important changes on the interregional mobility patterns'; H2.B 'The improvements in accessibility resulting from the newly paved roads were concentrated in a few regions, mainly Madrid and the coastal regions, which was a comparative disadvantage for the inland regions,' or, in other words, 'those investments affected the regions differently'; H2.C 'The effects were mainly at the level of cities, not so much of regions.' ./cache/cord-266771-zesp6q0w.txt ./txt/cord-266771-zesp6q0w.txt