México visto por un comerciante montañés de fines de la colonia
- Autores: Tomás Pérez Vejo
- Localización: Theomai: estudios sobre sociedad, naturaleza y desarrollo, ISSN-e 1515-6443, Nº. 3, 2001
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
Analysis of the memoirs of a merchant from Cantabria, in which an attempt is made to reconstruct the impression which a social group, comprising the merchants from Vizcaya and Cantabria, had of the New Spain. This group held much sway in the life of the colony but, due to its own socioeconomic characteristics, it barely left behind any written accounts about its perception of the american world. The text reveals to us how this group of merchants has a vision of New Spain, determined to a large extent by its own self-image as a morally superior group, a distinct vision and sometimes a radically different one from the more well known ones of travellers, members of the administration, etc...This group was a type of caste continually strenghthened in numbers by new members who arrived from the peninsula, very young ones, whose socialisation was carried out in the center of the very group. The image this group had of New Spain is especially interesting insofar as it will continue to be present in the new emigrants who arrived in Mexico during the whole of the 19th century and early 20th.
