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ANACHURI, Marcelo Gabriel. Between risks, speculation and global uncertainty: Genres, circulation and overseas merchants in late-viceregal Salta. Rev. Esc. Hist. [online]. 2019, vol.18, n.2, pp.00-00. ISSN 1669-9041.

The article analyzes the relational frameworks and strategies deployed by transoceanic merchants based in Salta, capital Intendancy of Salta of the Tucuman at the end of the 18th century. The consultation of unpublished sources, such as private correspondence, shipping license, property appraisal, wills and notarial protocols, together with the preparation of series, the analysis of social networks and historiographic reflection are necessary tools to uncover practices, links and interactions, social interwoven by these actors whose business connected Salta to markets located across the Atlantic and the Pacific in a cyclical period marked by institutional change, armed conflicts between European powers and reorientations in the geo axes historic space macro of the first globalization. As a significant feature, in relation to the activities of their contemporary peers dedicated to rural production and shipping of mules to southern Andean squares, their operations of importing overseas goods and exporting regional products to a global trade in transformation, the role of that it was up to the Philippines Company to acquire goods from China, at a late moment, in which historiography pointed to the Atlanticization of the world economy and the relative decline of Asian space as opposed to the North Atlantic because of the English industrialization. It is also verified that the services of this mercantile society, became an alternative in the businesses of these people from Salta, to avoid the usual Atlantic routes in the war context of the last quarter of the 18th century. Understanding the links, communication and circulation of information within the networks of these merchants, constitutes a privileged observatory, to unravel the complex interactions between actor/ network/market and explain how in the local space, the global was explicitly and implicitly recreated, when it represented a set of agreements,businesses and contracts of a system that integrated the regional into the macro space of world trade,which made Latin America a favorable space for early globalization.

Palabras clave : Social Network Analysis; Actors; Global trade; Century XVIII; History of Salta.

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