Algunas notas sobre el comercio local granadino en el siglo XVIII

Abstract

The article centres on the possibilities which arise out of a study of the Floridabianca Census of 1787 for the interpretation of the data contained within it. An analisys is made of the distribution of the nucleus of the Province of Granada which appear in the census, taking the township in rural Granada as the basic unit. This allows for both a greater understanding of the demographic reality of the time and the establishment of a firm starting point against which to contrast what are very often merely rough estimates of the evolution of the population during the XIXth century. The concrete analysis of the structures of settlement, age, sex and nuptiality provides standardised basic criteria which will possibly be of use in further wide-scale historical and geographical research. The rates and indices of this demographic moment are deduce, thus providing and interpretation of the evolution of the population inmediately before the Census was carried out, and also and indication of possible later alterations to the socio-economic and political reality of the time.