Abstract

MEZETA CANUL, Luis Ángel. Immigration and sectoral inbreeding. The commercial strengthening in Campeche and Merida during the bourbon free trade. Península [online]. 2024, vol.19, n.1, pp.83-105.  Epub June 04, 2024. ISSN 1870-5766.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cephcis.25942743e.2024.19.1.87317.

This article analyzes the influence of several immigrant merchants arrival in Yucatan during the context of trade opening in the Caribbean. Likewise, it examines the mechanisms for strengthening the Yucatecan mercantile sector and the social, political and economic interference of these agents that allowed the commercial elite of Mérida and Campeche to position themselves as a power group in the region at the end of the Colonial era.

Keywords : merchants; immigrants; Yucatan; free trade; inbreeding.

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