Propiedad - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:08:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Propiedad - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Social distribution of exploited land in northern Spain (18th century) https://historylab.es/social-distribution-of-exploited-land-in-northern-spain-18th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=social-distribution-of-exploited-land-in-northern-spain-18th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:13 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/distribucion-social-de-la-tierra-explotada-en-la-espana-septentrional-siglo-xviii/ Resource showing the differences in land ownership between the coastal and inland areas of northern Spain

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]]> Land ownership was one of the factors that made the Ancien Régime an unequal system, a reflection of the estates’ society. In the mid-18th century, northern Spain was no stranger to these issues. The resource addresses the differences in land tenure according to whether they were coastal or inland areas, in an exercise in comparative methodology. The author identifies two distinct models of social stratification in the coastal provinces: the first is based on a smallholding society where average holdings are between one and one and a half hectares, meaning that 60% of the peasants did not reach the minimum subsistence level, while the top 15% of holdings controlled between 40 and 50% of the land. The second coastal model was the one located in the transition zone between the coast and the interior, where the degree of smallholdings was greater but, again, insufficient, and where secondary economic activities had to be carried out for subsistence: livestock farming.

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]]> Hereditary model of the Lower Minho in the 18th century: Caldelas (Tuy) https://historylab.es/hereditary-model-of-the-lower-minho-in-the-18th-century-caldelas-tuy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hereditary-model-of-the-lower-minho-in-the-18th-century-caldelas-tuy Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:40 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/modelo-hereditario-del-bajo-mino-en-el-siglo-xviii-caldelas-tuy/ Statistical table analysing the transmission of wealth through inheritance, highlighting the egalitarianism of testamentary mandates. Caldelas, Galicia, in the 18th century

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]]> The different hereditary models help to understand the different demographic models. In this case, the resource analyses the North Atlantic model through the parish of San Martín in Caldelas (Galicia). In the 18th century, in the low-Miñoto model, we do not find a first-born son empowered through inheritance, but a distribution of improvements that affects women more than men. The author highlights a distribution close to hereditary egalitarianism only modelled by small paternal compensations given in exchange for services rendered and to be rendered (38% of the cases) or foundation masses (33%). Consequently, family, social and demographic dynamics (such as migratory movements) favoured radical egalitarianism in the transmission of property.

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