Francisco Ignacio de Yraeta y Azcárate, Mexico City almacenero, 1732-1797. An Essay in Micro-history

Yraeta arrived in New Spain in the mid-eighteenth century as a 12-year-old Guipuzcoan immigrant. After working for some time in Manila, he went back to Mexico City, where he married and worked  with his father-in-law, a  businessman with commercial relations in the Philippines. They later became par...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Stein, Stanley J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2001
País:México
Institución:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Historia Mexicana
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.historiamexicana.colmex.mx:article/1343
Acceso en línea:https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/1343
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:New Spain
Francisco Ignacio de Yraeta y Azcárate
merchants
18th Century
Nueva España
comerciantes
siglo XVIII
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Sumario:Yraeta arrived in New Spain in the mid-eighteenth century as a 12-year-old Guipuzcoan immigrant. After working for some time in Manila, he went back to Mexico City, where he married and worked  with his father-in-law, a  businessman with commercial relations in the Philippines. They later became partners and this spurred Yraeta's own commercial career, which strengthened during the second half of the eighteenth centruy, when New Spain ejoyed extraordinary circumstances: population growth, silver production and cmomercial realtions with Cadiz, Manila, Guatemala, Havanna, Caracas, Guayaquil and Lima. Yraeta was quialified, responsible, successful and deply Catholic, and found his way into the commercial oligarchy of the Spanish colony's capital. If he was the archetypical late-colonial Spanish bourgeois is yet to be seen-