Browsing Sociedad de Estudios de Historia Agraria by Title
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The Impact of the Rise of Modern Maize Production in Brazil and Argentina
Sociedad de Estudios de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2022-04)Brazil and Argentina have emerged as leading maize producers and exporters in the past two decades. In both cases the modern maize industry is associated with the expansion of soybean production and has also had an impact ... -
The Indian zebu in Brazilian lands
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2018-08)In this article we will examine the history of Brazilian cattle breeding in the early twentieth century, focusing on the transitional period of intensification of production, when the racial standardization of cattle began ... -
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 ... -
The Kadro journal on the agrarian question in Turkey in the 1930s
(2018-12)İsmail Hüsrev Tökin, in his preface to Türkiye Köy İktisadiyatı (1990 [1934]), argues that an economist who might travel Turkey from its western to eastern frontiers would face diverse social and economic scenes: remnants ... -
The long genealogy of quality in the British drinking-milk sector
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2017-12)Throughout most of the last 150 years milk in Britain has been an example of modernity in food production. It became a mass-produced, industrial product, with high volume, rapid tur nover, but limited choice. To modify ... -
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 ... -
The occupational mobility of rural-urban migrants: Madrid in the 1950s
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2015-12)This article examines the occupational mobility of rural migrants moving into a major urban centre, Madrid, in the 1950s. Employment type is used as a further indicator of the labour market position of migrants. A new ... -
The Rise and Fall of merino Sheep Breeding in the South of Ukraine during the Long 19th Century
Sociedad de Estudios de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2022-08)The paper analyzes factors that were influencing the development of the merino sheep industry to the south of Ukraine during the 19th century. The author seeks to highlight the peculiarities of the formation, specifics ... -
The severity of wheat yield crises on eight Spanish farms, 1700-1774
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2020-12)The main purpose of this article is to measure the severity of the wheat yield crises that occurred during the first three quarters of the 18th century, using records from eight farms and estates in Extremadura, Castile ... -
The Spanish path of agrarian change, 1950-2005: From authoritarian to export-oriented productivism
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2016-04)The aim of this study is to determine whether the Spanish path of agrarian change, between 1950 and 2005, exhibits some features important enough to differentiate it from the common model of developed countries in ... -
The spectre of historical crop losses: Challenging questions and methodological issues
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2020-12)Calamities in agricultural production have emerged as a relevant research topic for global food security in the current context of adaptation to climate change. Historians have been participating in this research by examining ... -
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 ... -
The urban-rural height gap: Evidence from late nineteenth-century Catalonia
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2021-09)This paper aims to establish whether there was a gap in biological living standards between rural and urban areas in late nineteenth-century Catalonia, and if so, to determine its extent. The study makes use of a large ... -
The water footprint of the spanish agricultural sector: 1860-2010
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2014-07)From 1860 the Spanish agricultural sector has gone through an intensive process of development resulting in important structural changes, not only in the sector itself, but also regarding the relationship of the agrarian ... -
La tierra en manos de menestrales. Las posesiones agrarias de los artesanos valencianos (1370-1450).
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2013-08)Una parte del artesanado durante la Baja Edad Media poseyó una cantidad importante de tierras en muchas regiones europeas, pese a no formar parte de su actividad principal. En el caso valenciano, las referencias en la ... -
Tierra y derechos humanos en Chile: la contrarreforma agraria de la dictadura de Pinochet y las políticas de reparación campesina
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2020-04)La reforma agraria chilena, ocurrida entre 1967 y 1973, representó un proceso masivo de distribución de nueve millones de hectáreas de tierras a campesinos bajo condiciones democráticas y dentro de la ley. Sin embargo, la ... -
Tierra, género y herencia en Pigüé, Argentina (1884-1929)
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2013-07)This paper is an empirical exercise that describes and analyzes the dynamics of the land in the agricultural colony of Pigüé, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. ... -
Tierra, trabajo y reforma agraria en la Segunda República española (1931-1936): algunas consideraciones críticas
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2017-08)El enfoque habitual de la reforma agraria tiende a ser negativo, algo que la misma brevedad del régimen republicano y su violenta interrupción tienden a favorecer. En este texto se analiza primero la tesis del desarrollo ... -
Tierra, trabajo y tecnología en el desarrollo del capitalismo agrario en Costa Rica
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2003-04)Se exploran las cambiantes interpelaciones entre acceso a la tierra, disponibilidad laboral y cambio tecnológico en el desarrollo del capitalismo agrario en Costa Rica entre mediados de los siglos XIX y XX. Para ello se ... -
El tomate mexicano y el mercado de Estados Unidos, 1920-1956
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2008-12)El artículo analiza el crecimiento de la producción de tomate mexicano entre 1920 y 1956 y su consolidación como cultivo para la exportación, en especial al mercado norteamericano. El trabajo concluye, en primer lugar, que ...