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La cara oculta de la desamortización municipal española (1766-1856)

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  • José Ignacio Jiménez Blanco

    (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

  • Antonio M. Linares Luján

    (Universidad de Extremadura)

Abstract

The existence of an intense process of municipal privatization in Spain prior to the General Disentailment Act of 1855 has still not entered fully into historiographical treatment of the liberal agrarian reform, despite contributions by specialized literature in recent decades. This article aims to reexamine the phenomenon based on the hypothesis that the privatizing discourse of Spanish liberalism was the result of a long process of transformation in the rural world. To this end, the article analyzes the complex and tortuous path of the three episodes that led to the processes of census redemption resulting from the Act of 1 May 1855: the division of land initiated during the reign of Charles III, census-based land distribution between the 1820s and 1840s, and illegal land cultivation since the Spanish War of Independence. Our goal is twofold: on the one hand we aim to define concepts that have not been fully understood and, secondly, to enrich the debate regarding the privatization process with a specific emphasis on proposals that within liberalism sought to use municipal rustic wealth to modify the structure of land ownership, with varying degrees of success.

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  • José Ignacio Jiménez Blanco & Antonio M. Linares Luján, 2018. "La cara oculta de la desamortización municipal española (1766-1856)," Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural, Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, issue 74, pages 37-66, april.
  • Handle: RePEc:seh:journl:y:2018:i:74:m:april:p:37-66
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    Keywords

    municipal disentailment; census redemption; land distribution; illegal cultivation;
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    JEL classification:

    • N53 - Economic History - - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Extractive Industries - - - Europe: Pre-1913
    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy
    • Q24 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Land

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