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ANACHURI, Marcelo Gabriel. Salta, land of opportunities at the end of the 18th century: "from servants to vice royal entrepreneurs and royal officials". Rev. Esc. Hist. [online]. 2018, vol.17, n.1, pp.00-00. ISSN 1669-9041.

This article studies the trajectories of peninsular immigrants Juan Antonio Moldes and Manuel Antonio Boedo, to ascend socially and economically in the city of Salta in the mid-eighteenth century. Access to unpublished local documentation, notarial books, testaments, private correspondence and the digitized global repository, such as their shipping licenses, make it possible to unveil today the unknown past of two men about whom local historiography scarcely inquired. This way of historizing Salta past did not trace its true social origins as servants, an unworthy juridical condition according to the values of the old regime, under which they migrated from their native Galicia to America. Both courses give an account of the successful strategies deployed and the opportunities for social and economic promotion offered by the late viceregal Salta to the newcomers, to the point that they successfully manipulated their personal histories and denied their past services once settled in this city.

Palabras clave : History; Salta; Immigration; Families; 18th Century; 19th Century.

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