An agrarian history of Portugal, 1000-2000 : economic development on the European frontier / edited by Dulce Freire, Pedro Lains.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Freire, Dulce, 1969- editor.

Lains, Pedro, editor.

Series:

Library of economic history ; volulme 7.

Library of economic history, 1877-3206 ; volulme 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Economic aspects--Portugal--History.

Economic development--Portugal--History.

Relations.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Economic development.

History.

Agriculture--Economic aspects.

Portugal--Economic conditions.

Portugal.

Economic conditions.

Frontier and pioneer life--Europe.

Europe--Economic conditions.

Europe.

Portugal--Relations--Europe.

Europe--Relations--Portugal.

Economic history.

International relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

"This book follows the renovation of European economic history towards a more unified interpretation of sources of growth and stagnation. To better understand the diversity of patterns of growth, we need to look beyond the study of the industrialization of the core economies, and explore the centuries before it occurred. Portuguese agriculture was hardly ever at the European productivity and technological forefront and the distance from it varied substantially across the second Millennium. Yet if we look at the periods of the Christian Reconquista, the recovery from the Black Death, the response to the globalization of the Renaissance, to the eighteenth century economic enlightenment, or to nineteenth century industrialization, we may conclude that agriculture in this country of the European periphery was often adaptive and dynamic. The fact that economic backwardness was not overcome by the end of the period is no longer the most relevant aspect of that story. Contributors are: Luciano Amaral, Amélia Branco, Dulce Freire, António Henriques, Pedro Lains, Susana Münch Miranda, Margarida Sobral Neto, Jaime Reis, Ana Maria Rodrigues, José Vicente Serrão and Ester G. Silva"--From publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction / Dulce Freire and Pedro Lains

Part 1. State formation and Malthusian growth

The Reconquista and its legacy, 1000-1348 / Antonio Henriques

The Black Death and recovery, 1348-1500 / Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues

Part 2. New frontiers, crisis and growth

Coping with Europe and the empire, 1500-1620 / Susana Munch Miranda

Conflict and decline, 1620-1703 / Margarida Sobral Neto

Extensive growth and market expansion, 1703-1820 / Jose Vicente Serrao

Gross agricultural output : a quantitative, unified perspective, 1500-1850 / Jaime Reis

Part 3. Growth, structural change and economic policy

Growth, institutional change and innovation, 1820-1930 / Amelia Branco and Ester Gomes da Silva

Agricultural policy, growth and demise, 1930-2000 / Luciano Amaral and Dulce Freire

Part 4. Lessons from the second millennium

Agriculture and economic development on the European frontier, 1000-2000 / Pedro Lains

Appendix: Maps and figures for climate, relief, administrative divisions, urbanization, and infrastructures in Portugal, 1000-2000.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Agrarian history of Portugal, 1000-2000

ISBN:

9789004311534

900431153X

OCLC:

946481638