Agrarian History of Portugal, 1000-2000

Dulce Freire, PhD (2008) in Contemporary History (FCSH-UNL), is research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. She works in rural and agricultural history in Portuguese and Iberian contexts. She is coordinator of the FCT research project: "Portuguese agriculture: food, development and sustainability, 1870-2010", and chair of the Rural History Network/ESSHC-IISG. Among her publications are To Produce and To Drink. The wine issue in the Estado Novo, 2010 and Rural world: transformation and resistance in the Iberian Peninsula (20th Century), 2004. Pedro Lains, PhD (1992) in History (European University Institute, Florence), is research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. He researches mainly in Economic History of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Among his publications are História da Caixa Geral de Depósitos, 1876-2010, 2011 and Agriculture and Economic Development in Europe since 1870, 2008.

• List of Maps, Tables and GraphsNotes on the ContributorsIntroduction Dulce Freire and Pedro LainsPart I – State formation and Malthusian growthChapter 1 – The Reconquista and its legacy, 1000-1348António HenriquesIntroductionThe ReconquistaInstitutional developmentsCities, markets and agrotownsProduction and productivityConclusionChapter 2 – The Black Death and recovery, 1348-1500Ana Maria S. A. RodriguesIntroductionPlague, war and demographic declineThe reversal of fortunesCommercializationThe impact of the overseas expansionConclusionPart II – New frontiers, crisis and growthChapter 3 – Coping with Europe and the Empire, 1500-1620Susana Münch MirandaIntroductionPopulation pressure and urban expansionInstitutional framework and output cyclesThe landscape and the production structureThe marketplaceConclusionChapter 4 – Conflict and decline, 1620-1703Margarida Sobral NetoIntroductionDomestic settlements and emigrationColonial tradeSubsistence farming and the marketOutput cyclesConclusionChapter 5 – Extensive growth and market expansion, 1703-1820José Vicente SerrãoIntroductionThe rural landscapeThe macroeconomic contextGrain issuesProperty rightsConclusionChapter 6 – Gross agricultural output: a quantitative, unified perspective, 1500-1850Jaime ReisIntroductionMethod and dataTrend, cycles and short term fluctuationsAre the results consistent?ConclusionPart III – Growth, structural change and economic policyChapter 7 – Growth and structural change, 1820-1929Amélia Branco and Ester G. SilvaIntroductionLand, output and productivityInstitutional changeAgrarian innovationConclusionChapter 8 – Economic policy, growth and the demise, 1929-2000 Luciano Amaral and Dulce FreireIntroductionQuantitative evolutionProtectionismState and corporatist organizationsThe Common Agricultural PolicyConclusionPart IV – Lessons from the second MillenniumChapter 9 – Agriculture and economic development on the European frontier, 1000-2000Pedro LainsIntroductionLessons from the European frontierConvergence and divergence in European agricultureConclusionAppendix – Maps and data for climate, relief, administrative divisions, urbanization, agricultural output and infrastructures in Portugal, 1000-2000Index

"A pioneering collaborative effort, based largely on a rich but 'hidden' literature in Portuguese. It opens the distinctive and fascinating history of Portuguese agriculture over a millennium to the outside world." – Cormac O’ Grada, University College Dublin"This book is a very significant contribution to the economic history of Europe.Since the formation of Portugal to the present, it offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of Portuguese agriculture by the best specialists in the subject." – Vicente Pinilla, University of Zaragoza