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Alimentación, carestías y crisis de mortalidad en la España cantábrica (1680-1860)

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  • Elena Catalán Martínez

    (Universidad del País Vasco)

  • Ramón Lanza García

    (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

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This article examines the food consumption patterns, the evolution of catastrophic mortality and the role of famines in the appearance of mortality crises on the Cantabrian coast from the late seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century, before the start of the industrial era. Family budgets, burials and wheat prices are used here to measure how important the shortages were in the appearance of adult mortality crises. Though the population was generally well nourished, the main finding of this analysis is that on the rare occasions in which famines did occur, they were mainly a combination of local crop failures, a break down in the usual marketing channels or wars that caused situations of extreme food scarcity over the course of two or more years.

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  • Elena Catalán Martínez & Ramón Lanza García, 2015. "Alimentación, carestías y crisis de mortalidad en la España cantábrica (1680-1860)," Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural, Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, issue 67, pages 11-42, december.
    • Handle: RePEc:seh:journl:y:2015:i:67:m:december:p:11-42
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    Keywords

    nutrition; mortality crisis; shortages; Cantabria;
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    JEL classification:

    • J10 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - General
    • N33 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Europe: Pre-1913
    • N93 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - Europe: Pre-1913
    • Q11 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis; Prices

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