<italic>The article analyzes the economic entries of the main Spanish general encyclopedias of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries:</italic> Diccionario enciclopédico <italic>(1887–1898) and</italic> Enciclopedia universal <italic>(1908–1930). Both works include the contributions of prestigious Spanish and Latin...</italic>

Spanish political economy experienced a profound decadence during the second half of the nineteenth century. Such period of isolation came to an end during the early twentieth century. The most outstanding economists of that period such as Flores de Lemus, Bernis or Torres were persuaded that...

This article analyses the economic entries of Enciclopedia Moderna, the first encyclopaedia to be written in Spanish. The selection, nature, and content of the economic entries in this encyclopaedia are carefully studied and particular attention is paid to its central role as a means of...

Este trabajo trata sobre la edad a la que niños y niñas accedían al trabajo remunerado en la España del siglo XVIII. Utilizando como fuente los Memoriales del Catastro de Ensenada (1751-1753), se propone la edad de diez años como edad media de acceso, a partir de la cual se puede calcular...

This paper analyses the employment of children in the Spanish mining sector at the highest point of its history (golden age). The main source used is Spain’s official Mining Statistics that show that child labour was widely used throughout the Spanish peninsula: an average of 14-17% of total...

Este trabajo pretende conocer las secuelas que, sobre el estado nutricional neto de los mozos reclutados en Extremadura entre 1926 y 1975, dejaron las crisis alimentarias generadas por la Guerra Civil y por la férrea política de control de precios mantenida por el primer franquismo. Mediante...