More industrious and less austere than expected: evidence from inventories of agricultural workers in north-eastern Catalonia (1725–1807)

IF 0.3 2区 历史学 Q2 HISTORY Rural History-Economy Society Culture Pub Date : 2023-02-27 DOI:10.1017/s095679332300002x
Rosa Congost, Rosa Ros, E. Saguer
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Abstract This article studies the changes in ownership of real estate, livestock and objects belonging to agricultural workers in the region of Girona, north-eastern Catalonia, through the analysis of a sample of nearly one thousand postmortem inventories dated between 1725 and 1807. It shows that a sizable number of agricultural workers gained greater access to property rights in land and other means of production, as well as undeniable improvements in their consumption levels during that period. Regarding the latter point, comparisons with inventories of the lower classes in Great Britain and other areas of north-western Europe show that the differences are not nearly as radical as suggested by the stereotype often applied to Mediterranean areas. The article thus discusses the apriorisms that have led many researchers to reject the idea that an industrious revolution was possible in southern Europe, and vindicates the need to strengthen dialogue between historiographies.
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比预期的更勤奋、更不节俭:加泰罗尼亚东北部农业工人的库存证据(1725-1807)
本文通过对1725年至1807年间近1000份尸检样本的分析,研究了加泰罗尼亚东北部赫罗纳地区农业工人的房地产、牲畜和物品所有权的变化。这表明,相当多的农业工人在这一时期获得了更多的土地和其他生产资料的产权,他们的消费水平也得到了不可否认的改善。关于后一点,与大不列颠和西北欧其他地区的下层阶级的清单进行比较表明,这些差异并不像地中海地区经常出现的刻板印象所表明的那样严重。因此,这篇文章讨论了导致许多研究人员拒绝接受南欧可能发生勤劳革命的观点的先验论,并证明了加强历史学家之间对话的必要性。
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期刊介绍: Rural History is well known as a stimulating forum for interdisciplinary exchange. Its definition of rural history ignores traditional subject boundaries to encourage the cross-fertilisation that is essential for an understanding of rural society. It stimulates original scholarship and provides access to the best of recent research. While concentrating on the English-speaking world and Europe, the journal is not limited in geographical coverage. Subject areas include: agricultural history; historical ecology; folklore; popular culture and religion; rural literature; landscape history, archaeology and material culture; vernacular architecture; ethnography, anthropology and rural sociology; the study of women in rural societies.
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