Manufacturas - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 14:53:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Manufacturas - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Population of the cities of the Canary Islands between the 16th and 18th centuries https://historylab.es/population-of-the-cities-of-the-canary-islands-between-the-16th-and-18th-centuries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=population-of-the-cities-of-the-canary-islands-between-the-16th-and-18th-centuries Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:31 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/poblacion-de-las-ciudades-de-canarias-entre-los-siglos-xvi-xviii/ Table showing the population of the Canary Islands cities between 1510 and 1802

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]]> The urban hierarchy of the Canary Islands is greatly influenced by the development of the economic and urban structure, marking the terrain according to the strategic needs of the islands as a whole. The city is established in the places where the representative organs of power decide to settle: the Crown, the Church and the population.
It can be seen in the resource how, from the 17th century onwards, the situation in the Canary Islands changed, with the predominance of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria shifting towards the socio-economic take-off of Tenerife and La Palma. A large number of foreign merchants settled in both, establishing their estates to export wine and manufactured products to America.
Despite this growth, Santa Cruz de La Palma saw its privileged position assured by the settlement of the power groups, controlling from there a large part of the wealth that circulated around the islands in those years.

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]]> Fabrics registered in the shops of Murcia (1691-1692) https://historylab.es/fabrics-registered-in-the-shops-of-murcia-1691-1692/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fabrics-registered-in-the-shops-of-murcia-1691-1692 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:07 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/tejidos-registrados-en-las-tiendas-de-murcia-1691-1692/ Table showing the weavings recorded by gender in Murcia at the end of the 17th century

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]]> At the end of the 17th century, with the beginning of the Nine Years’ War (1689) between Spain and France, a persecution of French goods, capital and subjects began throughout Spanish territory. In this situation, the smuggling judge Antonio de Torres Prieto visited Murcia and its commercial establishments to carry out a search of the goods present in them, focusing especially on the textile manufactures, thus focusing on their volume, typology and origin.
The source is not without its problems, as the possibility of merchants hiding part of their goods or manipulating the account books is constantly present, although it does provide key information on the stock of goods present in the establishments visited by the smuggling judge, and in order to try to be as accurate as possible, it also relies on the register of goods that entered and left through the customs office in Murcia.
From the visits to the shops in Murcia during the two-year period 1691 and 1692, some forty establishments, it can be shown that 66.3% corresponded to articles made of vegetable fibres (linen, hemp and cotton), 9.6% to silk goods and 23.3% to woollen goods, in keeping with the climatic conditions of the region and the city. The question to be dealt with here is the number of pieces found, since at no point is the question of whether they were sufficient to cover the needs of the inhabitants of Murcia and its immediate surroundings, who had been accustomed for some years to French textile manufactures.

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