Samuel Garrido: una contribución fundamental a la historia económica y la historia agraria

This article analyzes the contribution of Samuel Garrido, who passed away in 2022, to economic and rural history. To this end, we address the three fundamental axes around which his research was developed. First, we study his contribution to agricultural cooperativism, the main subject of his work. Next, we explain his contributions on irrigation, mainly those of Valencia, and the institutions that regulated them. Finally, we study how he analyzed some agricultural crops and products, in which cooperatives or irrigation had an outstanding importance, mainly orange trees, hemp and wine. We highlight how Samuel Garrido based his work on careful archival research, but also how he combined the study of historical documentation with the use of econometric techniques for data analysis. His concern for providing a theoretical foundation for his approaches was also notable. He thus combined the virtues of the historian with those of the economist, with an outstanding result.