The social role of an economic contract. Notarized credit and relational resources in Buenos Aires, at the beginnings of the XVII century.
By the first half of the seventeenth century, Buenos Aires was experiencing the process of its local social integration and was joining into the various commercial circuits, which transformed its economic life. It was deeply studied the way in which social networks, built on trust and loyalty, offer...
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Centro de Estudios Históricos Profesor Carlos S. A. Segreti
2010
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/anuarioceh/article/view/23145 |
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| Sumario: | By the first half of the seventeenth century, Buenos Aires was experiencing the process of its local social integration and was joining into the various commercial circuits, which transformed its economic life. It was deeply studied the way in which social networks, built on trust and loyalty, offered an organizational framework to businesses within the local elite in this marginal (and central at one time) port in the Hispanic American Old Regime. Therefore, the presence of notarized credit contracts represents a problem to investigate. Which was the role and significance of this formal mechanism into such a network context? We try to get an answer to this question by contrasting the relationships of formal credit with ritual kinship ties, through the trajectory built by one of the major creditors. |
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