The demographic structure of the town of Albacete consisted of a high-pressure model where both births and deaths were high. The figures on baptisms show a period of slow growth from 1700 to 1740; from that date onwards, they increased until the 1760s, years in which there were numerous epidemic and food crises. In 1775 the situation stabilised, showing stable growth. Likewise, deaths increased at the turn of the century due to the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) and the fin-de-siecle crises, on the eve of the French invasion. Finally, due to the social culture of the Ancien Régime, marriage was a constant without temporal disturbances: a legitimate means to survive in the social fabric by bringing families together to concentrate patrimony.
Collection: Graphics
Project: 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity., 4. Family, daily life and social inequality in Europe.
Chronology: XVIII
Scope: Educación Secundaria, Bachillerato, Universidad
Resource type: Graph
Format: Line chart
Source: Gómez Carrasco, Cosme Jesús (2007). Entre el mundo rural y el mundo urbano. Familia, parentesco y organización social en la villa de Albacete (1750-1808). Albacete: Instituto de Estudios Albacetenses, p. 60.
Language: Spanish
Date: 2007
Owner: Pablo Ballesta Fernández (Modernalia)
Copyright: © Cosme Jesús Gómez Carrasco © Instituto de Estudios Albacetenses “Don Juan Manuel”
Abstract: Demographic structure of Albacete according to the levels of baptism and marriages conditioned by crises and wars.
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