Did the agricultural product decrease in early modern Europe? The case of Castile

Authors

  • Enrique Llopis Agelán
  • José Antonio Sebastián Amarilla
  • José Ubaldo Bernardos Sanz
  • Ángel Luis Velasco Sánchez
  • Vanesa Abarca Abarca

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihe.2016.12.002

Keywords:

Agrarian product, Tithes, Castile, Early Modern Period, N13, N53, Q11

Abstract

This work quantifies the growth of agricultural product and per capita agricultural product in four provinces of Castile between the late sixteenth century and the third quarter of the eighteenth century. For this purpose we have resourced to tithe documentation generated by the dioceses of Avila, Burgos, Salamanca and Segovia for the distribution of the subsidio and the excusado. Our most noticeable conclusion is that the negative image shown by some of the recent literature on the evolution of the primary sector in Castile in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries is at odds with the evidence. Between 1588-1592 and 1771-1775, both the agricultural product and per capita agricultural product, far from declining, grew in the aforementioned region.

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Llopis Agelán, E., Sebastián Amarilla, J. A., Bernardos Sanz, J. U., Velasco Sánchez, Ángel L., & Abarca Abarca, V. (2019). Did the agricultural product decrease in early modern Europe? The case of Castile. Investigaciones De Historia Económica, 14(2), 69–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihe.2016.12.002

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