Recherches sur l'économie et les finances des villages du Pélion : région d'industries rurales : ca 1750-1850
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Abstract EN:
This research proposes to study the process of rise and decline of rural industries on mount pelion, using both published and non-published documents, consular archives and especially the unpublished and non-catalogued documents found in the local communal libraries. Pelion is a mountainous region that is and was in the 18th century densely populated. Its agriculture was intensive but deficient and wouldn't nourish its population and thus the peasants had to combine their agricultural with industrial activities and use complex strategies of seasonal and temporary emigration. A social strata of communal notables that were equally merchants and financiers played a pivotal role in guaranteeing a relative administrative autonomy along with the commercialization and financing of both industrial and agricultural activities. Their power was founded on the succesful administration of the communal finances and the domination of local markets of credit and products. The conditions of the rise and decline of rural industries on the whole of eastern thessaly are also examined.
Abstract FR:
Cette recherche se propose d'etudier les processus d'essor et de declin des industries rurales du pelion, a partir des sources publiees ou inedites et des archives consulaires, ainsi que des sources inedites et non cataloguees se trouvant dans les bibliotheques locales. Il s'agit d'une region montagneuse densement peuplee, caracterisee par l'agriculture intensive mais deficitaire des paysans pluriactifs qui devaient combiner les activites agricoles et industrielles avec des strategies familiales d'emigration saisonniere ou temporaire. Une couche des notables communaux qui etaient egalement des marchands et des financiers, dominait les systemes des finances communales et assurait une relative autonomie administrative ainsi que le controle effectif du systeme de commercialisation et de financement de la production agricole et industrielle. Les conditions de l'essor en ca. 1750 et du developpement des industries rurales dans l'ensemble des regions des montagnes de la thessalie orientale ont ete analyse afin de demontrer que ce phenomene est profondement integre dans l'equilible plus global de la thessalie ottomane. Apres 1820, les industries rurales accusent un declin sous le choc du double effet de l'expansion europeenne et des reformes du tanzimat.