Gallivanting Capitalism: Nineteenth-Century European Travelers in the Deserts of the Andean South
Author(s): Maria Fernanda Boza Cuadros
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Itinerant Bureaucrats and Empire" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
The deserts of southern Peru had remained marginal to the Spanish colonial program and were poorly known and documented at the start of the Republic. Following independence (1821-1824), the southern coast thrived thanks to the increased commercial activity on its shores and the exploitation of fertilizers that could be found in Pacific islands and the mainland. The prosperity of the Andean south during the mid-century was only possible thanks to foreign capital, ideas of development and imported technologies. As I show in this paper, their arrival was made possible by European travelers who traversed the coast, mapped it and described it. Their publications generated the necessary knowledge for new investments on the coast and inland and ultimately helped shape the national agenda and neo-colonial configurations on this side of the Pacific.
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Gallivanting Capitalism: Nineteenth-Century European Travelers in the Deserts of the Andean South. Maria Fernanda Boza Cuadros. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Charles, MO. 2019 ( tDAR id: 449030)
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Keywords
General
Andean south
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travelers
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
19th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 286