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[eng] Abstract Murcia, central part of the dry Southeast of Spain, plays the role of a military borderland against Islam until 1492. In this repulsive environment, the extremely feeble population is concentrated on some fortified sites each of which dominates a little huerta. The remaining space is left to the most extensive activities. Between 1500 and 1800 this population grows ten times on the basis of an agricultural progress which transforms the regional landscape in two successives cycles. In the XVIth century the silk production success leads to the development of big hydraulic in the valleys while, after the XVIIth century crisis, the need for selfsubsistence explains an intensive campaign of steppe ploughing together with marshland draining for sanitary reasons. [fre] Résumé Centre de l'Espagne aride, la Murcie constitue jusqu'en 1492 une marche frontière de la Castille face à l'Islam. Dans ce milieu répulsif, le peuplement extrêmement faible se concentre sur quelques sites fortifiés qui dominent chacun une petite huerta. Le reste de l'espace est abandonné aux activités prédatrices. Or entre 1500 et 1800 cette population décuple sur la base d'une mise en culture qui transforme le paysage régional en deux cycles d'ampleur inégale. Au XVIe siècle le succès de la sériciculture pousse au développement d'une grande hydraulique de vallées tandis qu'après la crise du XVIIe siècle le besoin ď autosubsistance explique une intense campagne de défrichement des steppes qu'accompagne pour des raisons sanitaires l'assèchement des marécages.
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Guy Lemeunier, 1997.
"Environnement et croissance agraire dans l'Espagne aride, XVIIe-XVIIe siècles,"
Histoire, économie & société, Programme National Persée, vol. 16(3), pages 377-394.
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RePEc:prs:hiseco:hes_0752-5702_1997_num_16_3_1953
DOI: 10.3406/hes.1997.1953
Note: DOI:10.3406/hes.1997.1953
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