Abstract

ANACHURI, Marcelo G.. Loans and Wealth: The Case of Juan Antonio Moldes in Salta by the end of the Eighteenth Century. Am. Lat. Hist. Econ [online]. 2019, vol.26, n.3, e972.  Epub Sep 06, 2019. ISSN 2007-3496.  https://doi.org/10.18232/alhe.972.

This article aim at recognize incidents and relevance of the activity of lender in the concretion of fortune and the vertiginous social promotion of Juan Antonio Moldes during the second half of the eighteenth century. The access to new documentation allows to exhibit today with greater care the successful financial activity displayed by the man of whom the historiography much said and scarcely inquire into. The analysis of boarding licenses, private correspondence, books of writings and testament, show the economic success and the social prestige reached by Moldes in the viceregal society of Salta, to the point that he was able to hide until today the condition of servant under which he emigrated from his Galicia native.

Keywords : economic history; loan; merchant; wealth; loans.

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