Los capitalistas : Hispano merchants and the Santa Fe trade / Susan Calafate Boyle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyle, Susan Calafate.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merchants.

History.

Commerce.

New Mexico--Commerce--Mexico.

New Mexico.

Mexico--Commerce--New Mexico.

Mexico.

Merchants--New Mexico--History.

New Mexico--History--To 1848.

Santa Fe National Historic Trail--History.

Santa Fe National Historic Trail.

Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.

Physical Description:

xvii, 236 pages : 1 illustration, 2 maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1997]

Summary:

This volume recounts the little-known history of Hispano merchants in the Santa Fe trade during the nineteenth century. Contrary to ethnic stereotypes, Hispanos were ambitious, savvy businessmen who practiced the most modern methods of international finance. Their complex transactions linked Santa Fe with Chihuahua City, St. Louis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, New York, London, and Paris. New Mexican merchants like millionaire Felipe Chavez were major figures in the Santa Fe trade until the coming of the railroad in 1880. The practices of Chavez and his competitors convincingly demonstrate why they referred to themselves as "los capitalistas".

In addition to maps illustrating the international network of the Santa Fe trade, five appendices present data of interest to historians and genealogists, including Mexican merchants who received commercial passports from the Santa Fe customs house, and census data from 1860 and 1870 on Hispano and non-Hispano merchants and freighters.

Contents:

Isolation and dependency

Poverty and neglect

Going down the royal road

Contraband and the law

New Mexican merchants and mercantile capitalism

Felipe Chávez

New Mexican capitalists

Too little freighting for Uncle Sam.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-230) and index.

ISBN:

0826317898

0826317901

OCLC:

54275037