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Forgotten Commons: The Struggle for Recognition and Property Rights in a Spanish Village, 1509–1957

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2012

JOSÉ-MIGUEL LANA-BERASAIN
JOSÉ-MIGUEL LANA-BERASAIN*
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Public University of Navarre, Pamplona-Iruñea, Spainjosem.lana@unavarra.es
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Abstract

This article studies the role of property rights in social change using the case study of the small village of Sansomáin in Northern Spain between the years 1509 and 1957. The sources are mainly notary and court records and the focus is on the identity of neighbours as the foundation of civil and political rights during the Old Regime, and its translation into the new constitutional order that emerged after the era of the French Revolution. In the village studied, the failure of the Spanish liberal regime in extending the right of citizenship involved the usurpation of the commons by two foreign owners at the expense of the families residing there.

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Rural History , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , October 2012 , pp. 137 - 159
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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