Merchants, Prices and Salaries in Sonora during the Late Colonial Period. Description of a Captive Trade Circuit
This paper offers a critical view on the existence of regional markets and the New Spain market, based on the analysis of the presence, in the state of Sonora, of different forms of participation in the deals that depended on, and nurtured, the local trade circuits.Sonoran economies are shown to ha...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2008 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Historia Mexicana |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.historiamexicana.colmex.mx:article/1692 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/1692 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Sonora New Spain merchants economy 18th Century Nueva España comerciantes economía siglo XVIII |
| Sumario: | This paper offers a critical view on the existence of regional markets and the New Spain market, based on the analysis of the presence, in the state of Sonora, of different forms of participation in the deals that depended on, and nurtured, the local trade circuits.Sonoran economies are shown to have been part of a captive trade net managed at a distance from the center of New Spain by Mexico City merchants, and locally manipulated by several middlemen who transferred the system's operational costs to the final consumers through mechanisms such as salaries in kind and compulsory indebtedness. |
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