Antíteses (Dec 2017)
The cowhide business in the Rio de la Plata at the end of the 18th century
Abstract
This work aims to make a synthesis starting to show a complete picture of the entire circuit of production and marketing of cow hides. That is, of all economic activities and agents that were involved from the leather extract of the animal until stowage leather inside the boat carrying him through the Atlantic Ocean, the consumer market. Also, the results of recent research on the circulation of hides within the region and subsequent export and agents involved in such activities will be included. Thus, it seeks to highlight the complexity of the production and marketing of hides in the late eighteenth century, that the identified agents, included in various occupational categories and, finally, show that most of the population was linked in some so the business of cowhides.
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