Terratenientes - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:15:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Terratenientes - 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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]]> Type of landholding and age of the head of the family in the Sierra de Alcaraz (Albacete) in 1753 https://historylab.es/type-of-landholding-and-age-of-the-head-of-the-family-in-the-sierra-de-alcaraz-albacete-in-1753/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=type-of-landholding-and-age-of-the-head-of-the-family-in-the-sierra-de-alcaraz-albacete-in-1753 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:33 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/tipo-de-hacienda-y-edad-del-cabeza-de-familia-en-la-sierra-de-alcaraz-albacete-en-1753/ Heritage and life cycle in land ownership and work in the Sierra de Alcaraz (Albacete), highlighting the unequal distribution of land and the children's care work for their parents.

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]]> In the Sierra del Alcaraz area of the 18th century, property was unequally distributed among the number of owners. The inequality between large and small landowners was also affected by another factor: age. Ownership and the life cycle of the individual are intimately linked in the family environment: while the parents acquire land, the children work on it as helpers. When they reach the age of 35 to 55, the stage of greatest accumulation of property takes place; their parents, already in the final years of their lives, give them the land so that they can perpetuate themselves in the family. However, until the time of their death, those over 55 years of age will continue to concentrate their wealth. Of the owners over this age, 25.7% are counted as medium-sized owners, compared with 23.4% who had no real estate, a not insignificant figure, which only increases from the age of 65 onwards with 35.5%. This trend in medium-sized property ownership contrasts with the dynamics of small and large estates. Thus, among small property owners, those between 35 and 44 years of age stand out most, and large property owners between 45 and 54 years of age.

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