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Author Herr, Richard

Title Rural change and royal finances in Spain at the end of the old regime / Richard Herr
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1989

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 879 pages) : illustrations
Series History e-book project
Contents The monarchy -- Agrarian conditions and agrarian reform in eighteenth-century Spain -- The philosophy of agrarian reform -- The decision to disentail -- The struggle to save the royal credit -- The extent of the disentail -- The collapse of the monarchy -- Seven towns -- La Mata -- Villaverde -- Pedrollén -- El Mirón -- Baños -- Lopera -- Las Navas de Santisteban del Puerto -- Ricardo, Malthus, and the market -- Two provinces -- The social and economic spectrum of Jaén and Salamanca -- Jaén Province: The determinants of growth -- Salamanca Province: Hardening the patterns -- Salamanca Province: The Despoblados and Alquerías -- The big buyers -- Between two ages -- Appendix A: The population of Spain in the eighteenth century -- Appendix B: The extent of different types of property -- Appendix C: Issues and redemptions of Vales Reales -- Appendix D: Monthly quotations of the Vales Reales against hard currency -- Appendix E: Ratio of the sale price of disentailed properties to Cadastral value -- Appendix F: Annual totals of deeds of deposit -- Appendix G: The Casa Excusada -- Appendix H: Relative prices of crops, 1753-99 -- Appendix I: The distribution of income from agriculture among individual farmers of La Mata -- Appendix J: Modifications in partible tithes after 1796 -- Appendix K: Income from raising livestock -- Appendix L: Relative labor needs for grain fields and olive groves -- Appendix M: The economic significance of Censos in Las Navas -- Appendix N: Comparative statistics of seven towns -- Appendix O: Use of the appellation Don in the deeds of deposit -- Appendix P: The zones of Jaén Province -- Appendix Q: The zones of Salamanca Province -- Appendix R: Types of Señorío Lego -- Appendix S: Index of landowning concentration in Salamanca -- Appendix T: Population of small and medium places, Salamanca Plain, 1786 -- Appendix U: Population, Salamanca zones, 1534-1857 -- Appendix V: Identified lever 4 buyers in Salamanca Province -- Appendix W: Identified lever 4 buyers in Jaén City
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 843-864) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Church lands -- Spain -- Jaén (Province) -- History -- 18th century
Secularization -- Spain -- Jaén (Province) -- History -- 18th century
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Spain -- Jaén (Province) -- History -- 18th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects
Church lands
Secularization
SUBJECT Jaén (Spain : Province) -- History
Subject Spain -- Jaén (Province)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 86025027
ISBN 0520059484
9780520059481
0585356394
9780585356396