In the origins of reforms:enlightenment and agronomy in Valencia

Authors

  • Pablo Cervera Ferri
Keywords: 18th century, agronomy, Enlightenment, Valencia, José Antonio Valcárcel, Manuel Sisternes, Antonio José Cavanilles, Antonio Ponz, Spanish Economic Societies

Abstract

Technical advances from agronomy complemented the economic reforms in the time of Spanish Enlightenment. French and British methods were adapted to Valencian agriculture in Valcárcel’s Agricultura General (1765) and spread since 1785 from the Royal Economic Society of the Friends of the Country in Valencia, from the project for an agrarian law written by Sisternes, and from scientific and travel literature (Cavanilles, Ponz, Beramendi). However, the reception of agronomy did not promote an agrarian revolution and, therefore, it neither provided essential changes for a transformation in the Valencian industrial structure.

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Cervera Ferri, P. (2007). In the origins of reforms:enlightenment and agronomy in Valencia. Areas. International Social Science Journal, (26), 11–29. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/areas/article/view/118481
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No. 26 (2007): La cuestión agraria: de los ilustrados a la globalización
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