This study examines a facet of institutional change in 19th Century Spain. Empirical analysis of a zone in the Ebro valley confirms that the process of selling commons prior to the 1855 Ley de Desamortización (Disentailment Law) was of great significance. It evaluates the nature of the changes...

Se trata de evaluar desde una perspectiva regional las dimensiones y consecuencias que sobre el sector agrario tuvo el boom exportador de vino común acaecido en España durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. A tal fin, se reconstruye la evolución de los precios del caldo y se pone en...

This article presents new estimates of the cost of living and real wages in the agriculture from 1781 to 1936 in Southern Navarre. The typology of wages includes male labourers, female labourers and servants. The calculated indexes suggest that the rural standard of living increased after the...