Iberian colonisations and water distribution systems (15th-16th c.) : a comparative approach
Retamero, Fèlix (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Martínez-Enamorado, Virgilio (Universidad de Málaga)

Publicació:	Boston : Brill, 2018
Resum:	Some years ago, M. Barceló and Th. F. Glick stressed the tencency to stability both of irrigation systems and of water distribution procedures in medieval contexts. The Iberian conquests in the peninsula, in the Canary islands and in the Americas developed between the 12th and the 16th centuries give rise to issues on continuity and changes of irrigated agriculture in the new colonial contexts. This paper explores to which extent and how the new productive choices and political organisation of the colonial societies were adapted to follow the original design and distribution systems. The case of the ancient Andalusi huerta of Casarabonela (Malaga), a Castilian conquest of the late 15th century, is analysed and compared to other Iberian examples from Valencia and Granada, principally. A further comparison is stablished with the colonial managements of irrigation systems in Gran Canaria and in early colonial Peru. A crucial question is whether scarcity was taken into account in the design of the original layout and the original water allocation criteria in preconquest systems, or whether it was only considered a factor with the imposition of new productive and management strategies. The decisive question is how to establish the chronology and nature of these processes of substitution, which sometimes took centuries to unfold. In this sense, the "growth" thresholds of the original systems have to be considered, since this was the point from which the original water allocation system would have become obsolete and nonfunctional.
Ajuts:	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad HAR2013-42195-P
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Llengua:	Anglès
Col·lecció:	Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 65
Document:	Capítol de llibre ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Matèria:	Irrigation systems ; Water distribution ; Casarabonela ; Iberian conquests ; Early colonial societies
Publicat a:	From Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th Centuries) : Destruction and Construction of Societies, 2018, p. 259-300, ISBN 9789004363328

DOI: 10.1163/9789004365773_010

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