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'Report on the Agrarian Law' (1795) and Other Writings
Gabriel Paquette | Álvaro Caso Bello | Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos
(2016)
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Abstract
"Report on the Agrarian Law" (1795) and Other Writings' is the first modern English translation of perhaps the greatest work of the Spanish Enlightenment, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos’s 'Informe sobre la Ley Agraria' (1795). A major work of political economy and a beautifully crafted philosophical history of Spain’s political development until the eighteenth century, 'Informe sobre la Ley Agraria' is a classic work of the Spanish Enlightenment. Displaying the richness of Spanish Enlightenment writing on political economy emerging from a fecund conjugation of foreign writers (Smith, Ferguson, Condillac, Mirabeau, Genovesi) with Spanish writers (Ulloa, Olavide, Uztáriz, Campomanes), this masterpiece explores the lessons learned from the shortcomings of the Spanish Crown's economic policies in the eighteenth century.
Gabriel Paquette is professor of history at The Johns Hopkins University.
Álvaro Caso Bello is a PhD candidate at The Johns Hopkins University.
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Cover | Cover 1 | ||
Front Matter | i | ||
Half-title | i | ||
Series information | ii | ||
Title page | iii | ||
Copyright information | iv | ||
Table of contents | v | ||
List of illustrations | vii | ||
Editors' biographies | ix | ||
Note on the text | xi | ||
Acknowledgments | xiii | ||
Chapter | 1 | ||
Introduction: Liberty (Libertad), Knowledge (Luces)... | 1 | ||
The Life and Career of Jovellanos | 9 | ||
The Contexts and Reception of Jovellanos’s Informe | 12 | ||
Between Practical Politics and Philosophical History: An Outline... | 17 | ||
Bibliography | 26 | ||
Report On The Agrarian Law (1795) | 31 | ||
The Historical Development of Our Agriculture | 35 | ||
The Influence of Legislation on the Development of Agriculture | 38 | ||
Laws Should Limit Themselves to Agriculture’s Protection | 38 | ||
This Protection Should be Limited to the Removal of the... | 40 | ||
[on the] Convergence of the Object of the Laws with that of Self-Interest | 41 | ||
[on the need to] Investigate the Obstacles that Oppose said Interest | 42 | ||
First Kind | 42 | ||
Political Obstacles, or those Derived from Legislation | 42 | ||
1st. Baldíos | 43 | ||
2nd. Municipal lands [Tierras concejiles] | 47 | ||
3rd. The openness of lands [La apertura de las heredades] | 49 | ||
The usefulness of enclosures | 55 | ||
4th. Partial protection of cultivation | 62 | ||
5th. The Mesta | 67 | ||
6th. Mortmain tenures [La amortización] | 74 | ||
1st. Ecclesiastical | 81 | ||
Regular clergy | 81 | ||
Secular clergy | 83 | ||
2nd. Civil: mayorazgos [primogeniture entail] | 85 | ||
7th. Circulation of agricultural produce | 95 | ||
On fixed prices [De las posturas] | 96 | ||
On general domestic trade | 99 | ||
On foreign trade | 106 | ||
1st. Of agricultural products | 106 | ||
2nd. Of raw materials | 107 | ||
3rd. Of grain | 108 | ||
8th. On taxes examined in relation to agriculture | 112 | ||
Second Kind | 118 | ||
Moral Obstacles, or Those Derived from Opinion | 118 | ||
1st. On the part of the government | 119 | ||
2nd. On the role of agriculture’s agents | 122 | ||
3rd. Means of removing both [obstacles] | 127 | ||
1st. The instruction of the propertied classes | 128 | ||
2nd. The instruction of farmers | 129 | ||
3rd. The creation and use of technical manuals | 131 | ||
Third Kind | 133 | ||
Physical Obstacles, or those Derived from Nature | 133 | ||
1st. Neglect of irrigation | 134 | ||
2nd. Absence of proper communication | 136 | ||
Overland transportation | 136 | ||
[Transportation] by water | 140 | ||
3rd. Lack of commercial seaports | 141 | ||
Means of removing physical obstacles | 143 | ||
1st. Improvements with respect to the kingdom as a whole | 145 | ||
2nd. Improvements with respect to the provinces in particular | 146 | ||
3rd. Improvements with respect to municipalities | 147 | ||
Conclusion | 150 | ||
On The Need To Combine The Study Of History And Antiquities With The Study Of Law | 153 | ||
Eulogy In Praise Of Charles III | 171 | ||
Advertencia | 171 | ||
Inaugural Address To The Royal Asturian Institute | 183 | ||
On The Need To Combine The Study Of Literature With The Study Of The Sciences | 195 | ||
End Matter | 203 | ||
Index | 203 |