Oligarquía local - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:18:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Oligarquía local - 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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]]> Number of merchants detected in several Castilian cities between the second half of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century https://historylab.es/number-of-merchants-detected-in-several-castilian-cities-between-the-second-half-of-the-15th-century-and-the-beginning-of-the-16th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=number-of-merchants-detected-in-several-castilian-cities-between-the-second-half-of-the-15th-century-and-the-beginning-of-the-16th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:27 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/numero-de-mercaderes-detectados-en-varias-ciudades-castellanas-entre-la-segunda-mitad-del-siglo-xv-y-el-inicio-del-siglo-xvi/ Economic and commercial growth led to the emergence of a thriving merchant class in Castile. Articulation of trade around the cities.

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]]> The economy experienced growth in the Crown of Castile during the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age. The statistics and merchant trajectories of its four main cities (Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo and Seville) reflect this. Burgos, despite having a population of 10,000 inhabitants, its geopolitical and economic power meant that its merchants were the most powerful in the whole of Castile. These merchant families perpetuated themselves in the trade and predominated in finance and business. They took advantage of their influence to assert themselves in the organs of local power and became part of the dominant oligarchy. They also developed marriage policies to reproduce themselves socially and maintain their privileges. The merchants of other cities such as Toledo or Seville followed similar dynamics to gain access to the local oligarchies, although on most occasions they found themselves unable to gain access to power and were left in a situation of subordination. Another causality in the actions of the merchants can be found in Valladolid. Although it had a population of 30,000 and considerable economic activity, its merchants were not able to gain access to local power so easily, as the oligarchy was more determined to avoid the interference of external agents who could displace them, directing their influence to other parts of the Peninsula.

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