¿En los orígenes de una burguesía agraria o la consolidación de una economía de renta? La formación de un patrimonio rural en la Galicia sudoriental, 1740-1850

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the analysis of rural society transformations at the tum of the 18th century from the point of view of socio-economic strategies. We will firstly analyse the long-term evolution of the rural patrimony of a well-to-do family, formerly small rentiers from Trives (Ourense), whose strategy to consolidate their economic and social power in the area (anti-aristocratic confrontation included) is driven by both the adaptation to an unstable conjuncture and the imitation of fidalguia's reproductive strategies.