economy and enterprise at the beginning of the republic: foreign merchants in arequipa (1821-1854)

Condori V. · Historia Economica e Historia de Empresas (2020) · DOI: 10.29182/hehe.v23i1.691

Resumen

The prolonged war of Independence in Peru, favored the opening of the national market to foreign trade, also enabling the arrival of numerous businessmen to the Arequipa region, coming from different European countries such as England, France and Germany. Such entrepreneurs, after a few years of residence and investments in the city, managed to take control of import and export activities, definitely displacing the less powerful and few influential local merchants. In that sense, this research work seeks to know the complexity of the economic activities developed by the main foreign merchants settled in the Arequipa region during the first half of the 19th cen-tury, as well as their business composition and participation in the regional economy, in an era marked by political instability and fiscal anguish.

Instituciones: Universidad Católica San Pablo