Mercado - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:06:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Mercado - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The ports of the Kingdom of Valencia (circa 1250-1520) https://historylab.es/the-ports-of-the-kingdom-of-valencia-circa-1250-1520/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-ports-of-the-kingdom-of-valencia-circa-1250-1520 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:14 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/los-puertos-del-reino-de-valencia-circa-1250-1520/ Map of the ports of the Kingdom of Valencia between 1250 and 1520.

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]]> The map shows the Valencian port line with more than 40 ports between 1250 and 1520. The seaways and ports contributed to the economic development of the region. There were 9 important ports: Valencia, Alicante, Denia, Gandía, Gandía, Cullera, Sagunto, Burriana, Castellón and Peñíscola; and smaller ports oriented to the proximity of the rural or semi-urban world. From the latter, products were shipped in kind to the city of Valencia to supply the market, or beyond the borders of the Kingdom. The maritime connection between Valencia and the towns by sea was extremely important during the second half of the 15th century, and there is evidence of the arrival of numerous cargoes in light sailing ships.

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]]> Structure of the household stock of consumer goods in Palencia, 1750-1840 https://historylab.es/structure-of-the-household-stock-of-consumer-goods-in-palencia-1750-1840/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=structure-of-the-household-stock-of-consumer-goods-in-palencia-1750-1840 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:46 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/estructura-del-stock-familiar-de-bienes-de-consumo-en-palencia-1750-1840/ Analysis of consumer goods and their availability to Palencia's families at a time of transition from the Ancien Régime to the liberal state

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]]> Between the end of the Ancien Régime and the beginning of the Contemporaneity, there was an increase in household consumption in Castile; an industrial revolution without industrialisation that the author, Fernando Carlos Ramos, observes in the province of Palencia between 1750 and 1840. The resource shows that, although consumption patterns remained unchanged among durable and semi-durable goods, household spending did increase. on which products was the largest amount of disposable income spent? In all the periods shown, textiles took up more than 50% of the value of household stock, reaching 60.41% between 1785 and 1800. Within this group, clothing and footwear gradually decreased its weight in overall expenditure, with bed linen increasing. Household goods, on the other hand, were the second most important group in household expenditure. Books, religious and personal objects did not exceed 1%; and jewellery barely reached 2.5% on average between 1750 and 1840. Thus, the importance of textiles was greater than any other good. In terms of consumption patterns, the author has observed how habits developed in the urban world that were “exported” to the rural world, revealing the city as the driving force behind socio-economic change. The increase in household spending was motivated by the economic recovery that took place between 1815 and 1830, coinciding with the favourable evolution of population growth rates, widening the margins of the market.

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]]> Evolution of wheat prices in Early Modern Spain https://historylab.es/evolution-of-wheat-prices-in-early-modern-spain/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=evolution-of-wheat-prices-in-early-modern-spain Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:46 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/evolucion-del-precio-del-trigo-en-la-espana-moderna/ Evolution of the behaviour of the price of wheat in the regional markets of Spain during the Modern Age that affected the standard of living of families

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]]> During the Modern Age, the availability of food was, to a large extent, a determining factor in the standard of living of the population. One of the great economic efforts for most families was the acquisition of the food necessary for survival, with cereals, especially wheat, and bread, accounting for between 65 and 70% of current expenditure. Because of its importance, the demand for wheat tended to be inelastic. Consequently, changes in its price marked the rise and fall of living standards. At the regional level, the behaviour of the price of wheat showed divergences depending on whether one lived in the centre or on the coast of the peninsula. While the price fluctuation was greater in the Meseta, the coastal areas, with their international trade routes, showed less variation. Thus, throughout the modern period, Barcelona and Valencia had lower prices than in Castilla la Nueva, Segovia or León. Periods of crisis were also important. In Castilla la Nueva, price volatility conditioned the market every 9.8 years; in Andalusia every 10.6 years; in Segovia every 14.1 years; in Navarre every 36.8 years; in Valencia every 38.4 years and in Barcelona every 69 years. Climatic disturbances also affected markets with less international trade capacity. However, from the beginning of the 16th century until the end of the 18th century, the common price tended to fall in parallel with the process of integration of the peninsular markets, a process which, although timid during the first two centuries of modernity, increased with the actions of the Enlightenment reformers.

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