The northern agrarian Spain during the Ancien Regime (1500-1850)

This work deals with the Rural Historiography of Northern Spain for the last fifty years, analyzing not only its peaks but also the gaps. It focuses on the study of the agrarian systems: a coastal dynamic one with high densities and significant innovations all through the centuries, and an underpopulated inland one, more static but not immovable, with important changes in its last phase. The mainstay of this rural society is that farming and cattle raising economy. It is a society with slight presence in towns, organized between the lowland cereal-producing model and the cattle raising model with a lower net product but the greatest detractions. Finally, we have considered the different social and territorial strategies as well as the standards of living that are reflected in welfare, civilization and luxury goods.