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020			_a9781138266957
040			_bcat
041			_aeng
080			_a94(460.23)
100			_94376 _aMARFANY, Julie
245			_aLand, proto-industry and population in Catalonia, c. 1680-1829 : an alternative transition to Capitalism? / _cJulie MARFANY
260			_aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2016
300			_a[xv], 208 p. : il., mapes. ; _c24 cm.
440	0		_915981 _aModern Economic and Social History
504			_aInclou índex, conclusions i referències bibliogràfiques
520			_aThis monograph makes a fresh contribution to a longstanding but far from exhausted debate concerning the transition to capitalism in Europe. The work investigates key aspects of this transformation: the changes on the land, the origins of the industrial revolution, the modern rise of population and the growth of markets. It does so from a new perspective, however, by focusing on an area of southern Europe, Catalonia. Catalonia's interest as an area for study lies in its precocity within a southern European context, as one of the few regions on the European periphery to industrialise in comparable ways and at the same time as areas of northern Europe. Population growth was similarly rapid. The study engages critically with several important debates in economic and social history, such as the transition to agrarian capitalism, whether or not sharecropping should be viewed as a backwards form of agricultural production, theories of proto-industrialisation and theories of population change. It also questions claims that the nuclear family of north-western Europe was a superior model for industralisation than the more extended family structures prevalent in southern Europe. Not only could the extended family be as dynamic as the nuclear family when required but, more importantly, attention needs to be paid to other institutions and factors that may have conditioned family forms and decision-making processes. The approach taken by this work is a micro-study of one community, Igualada, an important proto-industrial centre but also situated within the viticultural region. It grew rapidly over the eighteenth century from around 1,700 inhabitants in 1717 to 4,900 in 1787 and around 7,700 by 1830. Only at the micro-level is it feasible for an individual study to reconstruct networks of relationships and patterns of decision-making at the household level. At the core of the book, therefore, is a family reconstitution of 8,700 families, supplemented by a wide body of additional sources, such as landholding contracts, tax records, manorial surveys, inventories, marriage contracts and letters.
650		0	_2lemac _911894 _aIndústrialització _xHistòria _y1680-1829 _zEspanya _zCatalunya
655		0	_2popin _95370 _aDEMOGRAFÍA HISTÓRICA _fHISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY _iDEMOGRAFIA HISTÒRICA _zCATALUÑA
655		0	_9215 _aINDUSTRIALIZACIÓN _fINDUSTRIALIZATION _iINDUSTRIALITZACIÓ
655		0	_9194 _aCONDICIONES SOCIO-ECONÓMICAS _fSOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS _iCONDICIONS SOCIO-ECONÒMIQUES
655		0	_2popin _918 _aHISTORIA _fHISTORY _iHISTÒRIA
901			_aNoRevisat
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