Las utilidades del inculto y la lucha para sus aprovechamientos en la Galicia meridional (1650-1850)

Abstract

This work is located in the Bajo Miño region with the combined use of documentary sources about the subject of the incultivated fields in a densely populated area, which suited an early expansion over the communal spaces; these spaces which were very decreased in the middle of 18th century. In the first part, we analyse the cultivation's distribution and the productivities of the several uses of the incultivated fields in relation to the cereal prices; in this way we proved small transformations in the cultivations and the pinewook gradual expanse. In the second part we study the conflict about the incultivated fields -here very intense- in a double level, territorial and socio-economic, to show the imposition of the parish holding and the constant fight to turn private the fields with success.