Routes, Roads, and Silver Trade in Cerro de Pasco, 1820-1860: The Internal Market in Nineteenth-Century Peru

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An earlier version of this paper was submitted, at the kin-d request of Rory Miller, to the symposium Regional Approaches to Peruvian History, 46th International Congress of Americanists, Amsterdam, July 1988, and was written while the author was a Tinker Visiting Professor at Stanford University. I thank especially Steve Haber for his help anld support during my stay at Stanford. The present version was written under the auspices of the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I thank the three anonymous HAHR referees for their comments and criticism and my wife, Susan C. Stokes, for her invaluable help. I also thank Nicanor Dominguez for preparing the map. 1. See the classic works of Fernand Braudel: The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, 2 vols. (in French, 1949; English ed., New York: Harper and Row, 1972), esp. 1:276-95; and Civilization and Capitalism, Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, 3 vols. (in French, 1979; English ed. New York: Harper and Row, 1981-86), esp. vol. 1, The Structures of Everyday Life, The Limits of the Possible, 415-30. See also Pierre Vilar, La Catalogne dans l'Espagne moderne: recherches sur les fondemnents econonmiques des structures nationales, 3 vols. (Paris: SEVPEN, 1962); and Emilio Sereni, Il capitalismo nelle campagne (Turin: Einaudi, 1968). A U.S. source of inspiration concerning market building in Latin America has been Eric Van Young, Hacienda and Market in EighteenthCentury Mexico: The Rural Economy of the Guadalajara Region, 1675-1820 (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1981). See also Carlos Sempat Assadourian, El sistema de la econontia colonial. Mercado interno, regiones, y espacio econ6mico (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1982); and Jos6 Deustua, Mines, monnaie, et hommes dans les Andes: une histoire economique et sociale de l'activit6 miniere dans le Perou du XIXe siele, 2 vols. (Doctoral thesis, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1988), esp. vol. 1, chap. 3, pp.