Abstract

CEBALLOS, Rodrigo. From Union to Restauration: considerations about commerce, administration and the lusitanians in the 17th Century Buenos Aires. Rev. Esc. Hist. [online]. 2016, vol.15, n.2, pp.00-00. ISSN 1669-9041.

The aim of this paper is to present the formation of some complicity networks in Buenos Aires during the first half of the 17th Century and the existence of local conflicts on the control of trade in its port. With a massive Lusitanian presence in the port, we presume that the Portuguese were a social structural part of the city participating as a trader and resident in the region and its politic and administrative equipamiento. To understand the Lusitanian participation in Spanish America we discussed the meaning of (i)legal commerce in the port of Buenos Aires, and the (in)formalities for the maintenance of the Spanish Empire through this extralegal practices. More than a rejection of Lusitanian smugglers by vecinos - natives with their social ethos -, we see a complex involvement of dynamic groups constituted by governors, residents/merchants (Portuguese or not) and royal officials for the administrative control and, consequently, the commercial monopoly of a route that connected the Atlantic Ocean with the Tucumán and the Alto Peru regions.

Keywords : Spanish America; Social networks; Commerce; Smuggling; Administration.

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