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Poor but tall. The height premium in the Canary Islands at the beginning of nutritional transition
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2022-09)This article explores the beginnings of the nutritional transition in relation to height in male populations of the Canary Islands. With military recruitment data for the cohorts of 1860 and 1915, it shows the insular ... -
Poverty and rural height penalty in inland Spain during the nutrition transition
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2016-07)The article analyses nutritional inequalities and stunting in inner rural Spain from a case study carried out in Castile-La Mancha. The examination of the height of military draftees explores the gap between urban and ... -
Poverty and stature in rural inland Spain during the nutritional transition
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2017-04)This article analyses nutritional inequalities and stunting in the rural interior of Spain based on a case study carried out in the region of Castile-La Mancha. By examining the height of military draftees, the evolution ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Revisiting Allen's nitrogen hyphotesis from a climate perspective (1645-1740)
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2019-06)Building on Allen’s Nytrogen Hypothesis, this paper assesses the role of climate change in the English Agricultural Revolution. Our results show that, while Nitrogen-fixing plants, better cultivation and improved seeds ... -
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, ... -
Settler farming, agricultural colonisation and development in Katanga (Belgian Congo), 1910-1920
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2020-08)From 1908 to 1920, the Belgian Ministry of Colonies organised the first state-led agricultural colonization efforts in Katanga, Belgian Congo. This article examines the complex interactions between public and private ... -
Social and environmental filters to market incentives: common land persistence in 19th century Spain
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2010-05)The regional diversity of communal persistence in 19th century Spain has been well documented by historiography. Although the explanation of this divergence has been attributed to the social and environmental context, ... -
Statist individualism in the Papal States during the modern period: the agrarian code of Pius VII
Sociedad de Estudios de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2022-08)Through a methodological approach based on the study of legal sources and the context in which they were produced, this work demonstrates that the motu proprio Il vivo impegno (agrarian code) of 15 September 1802 ... -
Success and failures of inward-looking development in Cuba (1990-2008): opportunities and problems for small farmers
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2014-04)While the rest of Latin America followed outward-looking policies of agrarian development during the 1990s and early 2000s, Cuba implemented an inward-looking model during this period. In the midst of the most severe crisis ... -
Teaching in Rural Communities of the Po Valley, 1861-1900: An Idea of Agricultural Education Described by Agrarian Bulletins
Sociedad de Estudios de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2022-04)Italian agricultural modernization in the late 19th century was partly the result of increased environmental and agronomic knowledge acquired from primary school onwards. The article opens a new research perspective by ... -
The agrarian historiography of Chile: Foundational interpretations, conventional reiterations, and critical revisionism
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2020-08)This article examines the development of Chilean agrarian historiography in the last four decades, by means of an introductory overview organized as a chronological reconstruction. It selectively focuses on relevant ... -
The determinants of world wheat trade, 1963-2010: A gravity equation approach
Sociedad de Historia Agraria (2021-04)The international configuration of the world wheat trade has undergone significant transformations over the past fifty years. The volume of total wheat trade has increased fivefold, new exporting leaders have appeared and ... -
The dynamics of international trade in cereals, 1900-1938
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2015-10)El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la dinámica del comercio internacional de cereales en el primer tercio del siglo XX. Para ello se estudiará su evolución a lo largo de ese periodo, comparándola también con la del ... -
The Effect of globalization on water consumption: a case study of spanish virtual water trade, 1849-1935
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2013-07)This paper aims to analyse the impact on water consumption of the trade expansion of the first globalization era. To that end, we choose the case of Spain, a semi-arid country with significant cyclical water shortages ... -
The Expansion and Decline of a Transhumance System in Sweden, 1550-1920.
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2012-04)Este artículo analiza un sistema de transhumancia en Suecia, las cabañas de verano (fäbodar), en el contexto de la economía agraria del Norte del país, entre el siglo XVI y el comienzo del siglo XX. Su objetivo es comprender ... -
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 ... -
The goose that laid the golden eggs? Agricultural development in Latin America in the 20th century
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2017-07)In the last third of the nineteenth century, a large majority of Latin America adopted export-led models of growth, mostly based on agricultural exports. In some countries, this strategy produced significant results in ... -
The green revolution as a process of global circulation: plants, people and practices
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2018-08)The “Green Revolution” (GR) is often portrayed as a humanitarian development programme in which crop varieties, cultivation practices and expertise were transferred essentially from global North to South. In this paper, ...