Merchants of Buenos Aires 1778-1810

Family and Commerce
Erscheinungsjahr 1978
ISBN: 978-0-521-21812-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 470 g

Reihe: Cambridge Latin American Studies

By the end of the eighteenth century, Buenos Aires was one of the major commercial entrepots of the Spanish American empire. Chief among the beneficiaries of the new prosperity of the area were the wholesale merchants, a group of men who came to control the commerce of the entire Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata. This study, a contribution to the fields of social history and group biography, looks at the formation of the merchant group, and at the social patterns which assured the merchants' primacy in the economic and social life of the colony. Origin, education, recruitment, group perpetuation and social mobility are treated in depth. The role of women and marriage in recruiting individual merchants into mercantile families and clans is a central issue. Professor Socolow also looks at the merchants' roles in commerce and society, lay religious institutions and local government. A biography of one merchant, Gaspar de Santa Coloma, provides a case study of the multiple roles of a porteno merchant.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Socolow, Susan Migden

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The merchant population; 2. Women, marriage and kinship; 3. Commerce and investment; 4. Life style; 5. Religious participation; 6. Political and social awareness; 7. Gaspar de Santa Coloma, merchant of Buenos Aires.