Familia y cabildo en la sociedad rural andaluza (1850-1930)

Résumé

In this paper we will try to demonstrate how the practise of the local powers, during the XIXth and XXth century, very far from supposing a great opening, representation and heterogeneousness in the town typical of the arrival of the census suffrage at the beginning and universal since 1890, it was turning out to be an instrument in the service of a patronage system in which apex, a number very reduced of families, consequence of the assimilation between the old and new oligarchy emerged after the Liberal Agrarian Revolution, it is taken charge of guaranteeing that their interests prevail in the local corporations. The election of Bélmez de la Moraleda (Jaén) as a study laboratory, has allowed us to work from the microanalysis to understand, through the nominal composition, and basically familiar, of the town chapter, the composition and the evolution of the local elite, their sociability spaces and their strategies of consolidation or selection depending on the social, economic, political and thought changes, a behaviour that reproduce, in a little way, the general process of development of the andalusian politics in the period analysed in this paper.