Zonas marítimas - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 14:14:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Zonas marítimas - 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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]]> Population trends in Northern Spain (1600-1857) https://historylab.es/population-trends-in-northern-spain-1600-1857/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=population-trends-in-northern-spain-1600-1857 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:13 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/evolucion-de-la-poblacion-en-la-espana-septentrional-1600-1857/ Table showing the uneven population growth in northern Spain between 1600 and 1857, distinguishing between the coastal provinces and the northern inland provinces

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]]> The territory included in the conceptualisation of northern Spain is, for the author, Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, the Basque Country and Navarre; some 63,500 km2 which in the mid-19th century was home to almost 22% of the population of peninsular Spain. The resource deals with the demographic evolution of this territory between 1600 and 1857. Divided into maritime and inland areas, the population in the maritime north (Pontevedra, La Coruña, Asturias, Cantabria, Vizcaya and Guipúzcoa) was larger in 1600 than the inland territories (Orense, Lugo, Álava and Navarre), with a territory/population size ratio giving a similar density: 20.8 inhabitants per square kilometre in the coastal provinces, and 20.2 inhabitants per square kilometre in the inland provinces, exceeding the Spanish average of 15. The two and a half centuries of demographic evolution meant that the maritime north gained up to 225% more inhabitants, while the interior gained less: 85%. As a result, the coastal density increased to 62.9 inhabitants/km2, 3 times more than in 1600; a much lower figure than the growth of Orense, Lugo, Álava and Navarre, which reached 37.4. In short, the development of the maritime provinces, tripling their population, elevated them to the regions with the highest densities in Spain, while the interior grew slightly below the national average.

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