Modelos socioeconómicos en la provincia de Leónla Montaña y Tierra de Campos en el siglo XVIII

Abstract

Analysing the province of León with ecologic criteria, we distinguish between ten large natural región, with major or minors differences. We have selected two of them, set against, to know the socioeconomic model that rules in the XVIII Century. They are Northwest Mountain or «Montaña de Luna» and Sahagún. Comparing these two territories carries us, instinctively, to visualize two totally different landscapes: The scabrousity of the North and the smothery of the lower banks of the Cea and Campos. These differences, so evident in the shape, will drive us to inequalities in the background. In other words, the agrarian landscape will have a totally different organization, which will influence over a number of variables when we are configuring the socio-economic structure. This structure will permit to these communities to dispose the agricultural and animal cattle space. In this way, the outputs permit them to reach the necessary viability to guarantee the social reproduction.