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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, ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 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 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 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 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 ... -
Too many workers or not enough land? Why land reform fails in Spain during the 1930s
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2015-12)On the eve of the Second Republic there was a broad consensus among most contemporaries that some form of land reform was necessary for Spain’s southern provinces. Enormous estates were believed to be under-cultivated ... -
What’s in the annual database of Global Wine Markets, 1835 to 2016?
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2018-07)This paper documents a new, unique annual database of global wine markets covering 1835 to 2016. The database expands enormously the opportunities for conducting studies on wine production, consumption and trade from an ... -
Wine historical statistics: A quantitative approach to its consumption, production and trade, 1840-1938
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2014-07)This working paper provides a compilation of statistics on international wine consumption, production and trade from the mid-nineteenth century until the beginning of the Second World War. The statistical data is structured ...