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Land, Proto-Industry and Population in Catalonia, c. 1680-1829 - An Alternative Transition to Capitalism? (Paperback)
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Land, Proto-Industry and Population in Catalonia, c. 1680-1829 - An Alternative Transition to Capitalism? (Paperback)
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This 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.
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