Jordi Planas, Viticultura i cooperativisme. La comarca d'Igualada, 1890-1939; Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 2013 [Ressenya de llibre]

Abstract

During the nineteenth century, viticulture underwent an important expansion in Catalonia, as a result of growing population pressure, domestic market integration and growing international demand. In some districts, the process of specialisation in viticulture took place via a particular form of contract known as rabassa morta ('dead vine'). In rabassa morta, the landowner ceded to the tenant (rabassaire) a plot of waste or wooded land for the plantation of vines