Dimitris Angelis-Dimakis
PhD in Contemporary History, Autonomous University of Madrid, 2021
Type: Dissertations

Abstract

This thesis looks into the parallel development of the agrarian associations in Spain and Greece, two countries of Southern Europe based on the agricultural sector, from 1881-1936. Through the study of the organisations, whose birth should be interpreted in the context of the transformations, which took place in the rural space since the last decades of the nineteenth century, we will present the similarities and differences between the two countries. More specifically, we will examine the time path of the emergence and development of the agrarian organisations, the different types established, their quantitative expansion and their geographical spread. The policy of the governments on the agrarian organisations, its change over time and the interconnection of the associative policy with the other axes of the agrarian policy will constitute basic areas of this dissertation. Finally, we will explore the impact of the presence of the agrarian associations on the rural society and economy of the two countries. We will focus on the contribution of the various types of collective organisation to the shaping of an agrarianist discourse and the introduction of new forms of collective action, studying and assessing also their positions and the initiatives taken on the land tenure issue, the regulation of the market and the technical transformation of the countryside.

Keywords: agrarian associations, rural space, associative policy, Spain, Greece

Supervisor: Catedrático Juan Luis Pan-Montojo González

Jury:

Socrates Petmezas, Professor of Modern Economic and Social History, University of Crete

Óscar Bascuñán Añover, Professor of Contemporary History, Complutense University of Madrid. 

Jordi Planas Maresma, Professor of Economic History, University of Barcelona

Miguel Cabo Villaverde, Professor of Contemporary History, University Santiago de Compostela

Evangelia Karouzou, Academy of Athens