The decline of the commons and the reshaping of juridical-institutional and production systems in Terra di Bari after the Unification of Italy

  • Rita Mascolo Luiss University of Rome
Keywords: Neo-institutionalism, Notarial Deeds, Overturning of Feudalism, Property Rights, Apulian Tavoliere, Néo-institutionnalisme, Actes notariés, Subversion du féodalisme, Droits de propriété, Tavoliere des Pouilles

Abstract

The creation of small land-ownership and the consequent transformations in juridical, social and economic matters during the 1800s in Terra di Bari and, in general, in southern Italy, are inevitably intertwined with the so-called process of the decline of the commons. In the framework of methodologically updated studies, this article seeks to espouse the line of neo-institutionalism of the Mediterranean area, according to which it is necessary to investigate the ways of forming local ownership through the property deeds stipulated by notarial deeds and through the concept of conflict in order to better understand the processes of the modernization of society.

La formation de la petite propriété privée et les transformations juridiques, sociales et économiques qui en ont résulté au cours du XIXe siècle dans la Terre de Bari et, en général, dans le sud de l'Italie, sont inévitablement liées au processus dit de déclin des biens communs. Dans le cadre d'études renouvelées d'un point de vue méthodologique, cet article entend s'inscrire dans la tendance du néo-institutionnalisme de la région méditerranéenne, selon laquelle il est nécessaire d'enquêter sur les modalités de formation de la propriété locale à travers les titres de propriété stipulés par les actes notariés et par la catégorie de conflit pour mieux comprendre les processus de modernisation de la société.

Author Biography

Rita Mascolo, Luiss University of Rome

Rita Mascolo is Research fellow in Economics at LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome, where she teaches Economic history and Managerial economics. At the European University of Rome she teaches Behavioral economics and consumer choices as well as Microeconomics; at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples she teaches Development economics. Her main research interests are the development of the Southern Italy, the process of economic and monetary integration in Europe, regional development and cohesion policy, theories of the economic cycle and of choices in conditions of uncertainty.

Published
2021-12-31
Section
RiMe 9/I n.s. (December 2021). Special Issue