Transformación de los ecosistemas áridos para su uso agrícola en Baja California Sur, México. Un análisis desde la historia ambiental

Enrique Llopis Agelán, José Antonio Sebastián Amarilla and Ángel Luis Velasco Sánchez
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Enrique Llopis Agelán: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
José Antonio Sebastián Amarilla: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Ángel Luis Velasco Sánchez: Universidad nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)

Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural, 2012, issue 57, 13-45

Abstract: This paper forms part of a wider research whose main purpose is to establish the pattern and evolution of the population and agrarian output in Spain during the early-modern period. Its main objectives are: 1) to study the population movement between 1530 and 1860 in what is today the province of Guadalajara; 2) to assess the reliability of the censuses of 1591, 1752, 1787 y 1860. Baptism records and population statistics are the principal sources for this research. This paper's more relevant conclusions are: a) that from the late xvi century onwards Guadalajara experienced a long period of acute demographic decline; b) within this general population movement in the province sharp contrasts can be observed, mainly from 1650 onwards; c) the quality of the demographic returns is broadly acceptable, however, both the so-called 'census of the millions' of 1591 and the later census of 1860 miscounted the population of the province of Alcarria; the former overestimating it, while the latter underestimates it.

Keywords: Population; Baptisms Index; Census; Guadalajara; Early-Modern Age (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N33 N93 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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