TRANSFORMACIÓN DEL PAISAJE AGRARIO CIEZANO ENTRE 1808 Y 1874: CRISIS, AMPLIACIÓN DE LAS TIERRAS DE REGADÍO Y DESARROLLO ESPARTERO

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  • Francisco Javier Salmerón Giménez
Keywords: Cieza, agrarian crisis, Water-mills, "Esparto"

Abstract

The devastation wreaked upon Cieza, by the French army in 1812, in the context of the Peninsular War of Independance, together with a period of drought, created an agrarian crisis within the existing, more widespread crisis, bringing about a serious demographic recession. The crisis was overcome due to the construction of water-mills, wich began in 1823, and which during several decades achieved an important amplification of the land-surface, irrigated by the river-Segura, in which the most significant productions were those of wheat, and pearl-barley. During the middle-years of the nineteenth century, there was considerable expansion of the cultivation of ‘esparto’, as a product for consumption. This motivated a gradual dispossession of the mountainous common-land, and the appearance of ‘poaching’. Industrialisation began around the year, 1870.

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Francisco Javier Salmerón Giménez

Colegio Público Antonio Molina Murcia
How to Cite
Salmerón Giménez, F. J. (1999). TRANSFORMACIÓN DEL PAISAJE AGRARIO CIEZANO ENTRE 1808 Y 1874: CRISIS, AMPLIACIÓN DE LAS TIERRAS DE REGADÍO Y DESARROLLO ESPARTERO. Geography Papers, (30), 119–128. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/geografia/article/view/47561
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