First, this article analyses the available sources to study the quantitative evolution of the Castilian transhumant flocks during the eighteenth century. These sources allow concluding that the number of livestock increased during the first half of the century and thereafter, it entered in a...

First, this article analyses the available sources to study the quantitative evolution of the Castilian transhumant flocks during the eighteenth century. These sources allow concluding that the number of livestock increased during the first half of the century and thereafter, it entered in a...

What variation did the agricultural product per capita experience between the end of the 16th century and the late 18th century? This is the main question that this paper tries to answer, focusing on the high basin of the river Douro. Two indexes are used for this purpose: the first one of grain...