Diversity of culture border west of the province of Rio Grande de São Pedro: trade and parish of São Patrício de Itaqui (1850-1870)

Abstract

This article analyzes the organization of business activity that is established in the Province of Rio Grande de São Pedro, in the second half of the nineteenth century, from the Parish of St. Patrick Itaqui, between 1850 and 1870. Seeks to identify as manifested commercial activities in a region bordering open and susceptible to the flow of goods, people and trade associations which went along the Rio Uruguay, helping to boost the performance of traders and dealers in this society. Primary sources, legal and administrative, helped identify through quantitative research a trade that went through the action of a number of agents and private strategies of accumulation of funds that multiply in this border area, making it possible to expand the activities of the various lines of business. Thus, trade has created multiple strategies that society border favorable to mercantile interests that we are willing to consider.