Strategies and negotiation networks of the deputy judge of Trujillo, don Tiburcio de Urquiaga y Aguirre, 1780-1820

Abstract

Description of the situation of commerce and traders in the city of Trujillo, Peru, based on the study of a representative case, the deputy judge of commerce in that city between 1780 and 1820. It covers his beginnings in the trade activity, the creation of his network and commercial company, and the space in which he worked and applied a series of strategies that turned him into the most representative authority of the merchant guild. It also includes the modalities of negotiation (intercolonial and distance commerce), the products dispatched and the profitability of the activity that was deployed.
The aim is to show the peculiar characteristics of the Trujillo market and its agents at the end of the viceroyalty period.