Almería y los pueblos de su río en el siglo XVIII: dependencia y colonialismo económico

Abstract

In the Modern Ages, the neighbours of the city of Almería economically control the nearest villages located in the lower valley of the river Andarax, named as the river of Almería.

The Catastro de La Ensenada permits a close study of those properties. A research carried out comparing the extension of cultivated land, the parcels in which it is divided, and the agricultural product of a series of binomials essential for the society of the Old Regime: neighbours and outsiders, peasant-farm workers and “dones”, laymen and ecclesiastic, patrimonial and beneficial, direct explotation and partnership. The study is completed with a classification of proprietors and an analysis about the property of mills and oil mills, as an instrument of transformation in the agricultural production.