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Revisiting water and economic growth from a long-term perspective
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, 2019-07)
Water use has increased notably throughout the world over the last 250 years.
The industrial revolution and the long-term economic growth processes, first
experienced by Western countries, and then by many other regions, ...
The intellectual scales of environment: Agricultural pests and public sphere in 19th century Portugal
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA), 2020-12)
Studies and research on biological invasions have acquired increasing attention
in environmental history. However, the acknowledgement of certain specific cultural
markers –such as the press– has been hitherto limited ...
A brief history of the Reconquista (718-1492 AD): Conquest, repopulation and land distribution
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, 2020-12)
This article is an attempt to summarize in the space of barely twenty pages some
of the characteristics of the historical process known as the Reconquista in the
territories of today’s Spain. Since this was a process ...
Present soils and past land use: the “bracken economy” in Lea-Artibai County (Basque Country, northern Spain) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA), 2019-12)
Soils in Lea-Artibai County (northern Spain) show three significant features: frequent absence of A horizons, higher nutrient concentrations in the surface mineral horizon of past or present arable fields compared to those ...
El debate sobre el latifundio en la Argentina de entreguerras
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA), 2019-12)
Este artículo estudia cómo fue pensado el problema rural en la Argentina en las tres décadas que corren entre 1910 y el estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En ese período, los productores agrícolas de la región pampeana ...
Understanding Japanese Rural History in a Comparative Context: from Surplus Labour to the Labour-Intensive Path of Development.
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA), 2011-04)
La historia del desarrollo rural de Japón debería constituir un caso clave en cualquier análisis comparado del papel de la agricultura en el desarrollo económico y la industrialización. En las décadas de 1960 y 1970 se ...
La lucha de los "rabassaires": análisis de largo plazo de un movimiento social y político
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, 2016-05)
En 1964, Emili Giralt se refería a la lucha rabassaire de fines del siglo XIX
como “la más intensa agitación agrosocial conocida en Cataluña desde la
rebelión de los remences”. Y, como Giralt explicó, esta agitación se ...
Mejorar y quedarse. La cesión de tierra a rentas por debajo del equilibrio en la Valencia del siglo XIX
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, 2010-09)
By custom, in several different regions of Europe tenants were the owners of the improvements they carried out on the farm. As a result of such customs, rents usually remained below the Ricardian equilibrium over long ...
Land-use profiles of agrarian income and land ownership inequality in the province of Barcelona in mid-nineteenth century
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, 2011-01)
According to the existing literature, when land remained the most abundant factor an increase in market integration is expected to lead to a greater inequality in wealth or income distribution. However, several case studies ...
The management of agricultural estates in Catalonia in the 19th and early 20th centuries. An approach through bookkeeping
(Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, 2010-06)
The aim of this study is to analyse the management of rural estates during the
19th century and the first half of the 20th century using basically the expenditure
registered in bookkeeping records. The information collected ...