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Geographical distribution of military aldermen (1707-1788)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:20 +0000

The importance of the military element in the War of the Spanish Succession was decisive for the Austracist and Bourbon forces. The prominence of the armies and militias in the field of operations was followed by the need for Philip V to control the territories of the Crown of Aragon, for which the army was a relevant element. After the collapse of the foral regime, new criteria were established for the selection of personnel for the regidurias, which until then had been recruited by means of insaculation. The militarisation of the Aragonese territory was due to the fact that most of them had sworn allegiance to Charles of Austria, which led to a distrust of the monarch, which is why a kind of alliance was established with the military corps to guarantee order and obedience. The military administration would be reinforced in these territories practically until the second half of the 18th century, specifically until 1768-1769, as José Antonio Nieves Moreno says, when the trend began to change with a progressive victory of civilianism over militarism.

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Expenditure of the provincial revenue of the city of León in 1757

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:13 +0000

The provincial revenues, a set of independent aggregates such as the alcabalas, millones, tercias and cientos, were one of the main sources of revenue for the administration. In the case of the provincial revenues of the city of León, the income was accompanied by the corresponding expenses. In 1757 these expenses amounted to a total of 484,715 reales out of a revenue of 491,886 reales. Most of the expenditure, 71% (344,535 reales) went to the Treasury General of Revenues. The remaining 29% of expenditure was mainly divided between employees’ salaries (15.3%), loans to individuals (6.7%), and repairs (1.7%). The employees constituted a socio-professional category of their own, being the persons directly employed by the administrators of the revenues and the officials who were responsible for the management of the revenues. Also included are the intendant, with an allocation of 3,000 reales, and the four deputies elected by the parish residents, with 500 reales each. As a whole, the expenses were oriented towards the support of the supra-provincial administration, both in terms of destination and in terms of management and collection.

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Evolution between Andalusian and feudal hydraulics in Valencia, 8th-18th centuries

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:46 +0000

Obtaining water for cultivation has always been one of the social and economic concerns of farmers. From the late medieval water systems to the end of the Ancien Régime, the techniques and forms of irrigated agriculture evolved fruitfully. The resource shows the evolution of “Andalusian” and “feudal” approaches, giving them a distinct chronological space for both (13th-13th centuries for the former, and 13th-18th centuries for the latter). It was not only technological progress that had an influence; also the administration of irrigated land, the morphology of the market gardens, the mechanical priorities, the social use of water and hydraulic management favoured the development of the extension of irrigated cultivation in the Valencian countryside. With the increase and improvement of soil irrigation, horticultural crops and Valencian rice were able to expand.

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Adaptation strategies of the nobility: the Fernández de Córdoba family (15th-19th centuries)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:46 +0000

The aristocratic elites sought to perpetuate themselves in power from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period. The lineage of the Fernández de Córdoba, with almost 50 families, is an example of the strategies they articulated in order to maintain or increase their status. The resource shows the main positions in the high administration held by this lineage over 5 centuries. From the 15th to the 18th century, they predominated in the Councils (in a range of 72.2% at the beginning of modernity and 42.2% in the following century). In the 18th century, as the author points out, in absolute terms, the weight of this lineage in the administration declined as a result of the arrival of the Bourbons to the Spanish throne. The Bourbons displaced the traditional elites and placed the like-minded in an exercise of political control. The Fernández de Córdoba family arrived in the 19th century weakened but, with the new winds of change, they were able to adapt to the period of transition between the Old Regime and the New Liberal State; 51.4% of the lineage’s political posts were concentrated in the positions of senators and deputies. Not only were they oriented towards high administration, this lineage also proliferated in the local elite and in the clergy; forms of social reproduction based on marriages with strong families and on avoiding the atomisation of property during its hereditary transmission.

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