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Rabassaires, formiguers and caganers: comparing two nutrient balances c.1860 and c.1920 in the Northeast of the Iberian Peninsula
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, 2014-11)
Understanding the replacement of the nutrients removed by harvests helps us understand the influence of humans on fertility. In this paper we compare two previous studies on the nutrient balance of the cropland area in the ...
Agricultural exports and economic development in Spain during the first wave of globalisation
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, 2020-01)
The objective of this article is to study the evolution of Spanish agricultural
exports, their share of agricultural production as a whole, the determinants of their
expansion and, finally, the contribution that they ...
Costumbre y coacción social. La formación del arrendamiento rústico valenciano (1880-1940)
(2010-08)
During the first decades of the 20th century) a big amount of irrigated lands in L'Horta de Valencia (Spain) was transferred from the middleclass rentier to the little farmer peasants, who became owners of those lands they ...
Del castillo al mercado y al silo. La gestión de la renta cerealista de la Almoina de Barcelona en la castellanía de Sitges (1354-1366)
(2010-08)
Based on the extraordinary Almoina's account books of the cathedral of Barcelona from the castle of Sitges, this article examines how its representative managed one of the most outstanding features of the seigniorial rents ...
La parcela doméstica de la casa rural altomedieval (ss. V-XI)
(Sociedad de Estudios de Historia Agraria (SEHA), 2022-04)
The toft is the Cinderella of early medieval farmhouses. Most maintenance and social reproduction activities occurred in this space: harvest processing and storage, animal husbandry, daily chores, manure collection, tool, ...
Trigo y política: El proteccionismo cerealista en el Parlamento, 1886-1890
(Sociedad de Estudios de Historia Agraria (SEHA), 2021-12)
This paper studies the channels through which the agrarian crisis (1886-
1890) arrived in the Spanish Parliament and, once there, centered the economic
debate until an increase of protectionism was passed. The analysis
of ...
The formation of agricultural governance: the interplay between state and civil society in European agriculture, 1870-1940
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, 2022-04)
In this paper, we focus on the relationship between state and agriculture in Europe in the
period roughly from 1870 to 1940. Since the crisis of the late nineteenth-century, state intervention
had increased into many ...
Consideraciones acerca de la "hidráulica feudal" desde la perspectiva de los molinos valencianos (siglos XIII-XVIII)
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA), 2015-08)
The enormous economic and social importance of water on the Mediterranean coast adds significance to the theoretical frameworks employed in explaining water uses. It is rewarding to compare monographs on mills in feudal ...
The transformation of the organic energy system: the Swedish perspective
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA), 2019-04)
This article discusses the historical conversion of the Swedish organic energy system into a mineral one. The main argument is that there was a dynamic interaction between the two systems during the Swedish industrialization ...
El cultivo tradicional del almendro en el Mediterráneo: Baleares en el contexto español (ca. 1770-2017)
(Sociedad de Historia Agraria, 2021-08)
The process of arboreal diversification that was initiated in Spain in the final
stage of the Old Regime propitiated the emergence of new areas of production
and crops. Some Mediterranean regions, and in particular the ...