Fuentes pobres, métodos complejos. Producción agroganadera y sociedad en un área fronteriza del Río de la Plata tardocolonial: un análisis estadístico

Abstract

The economic analysis of frontier cases in Latin America often endures acute problems because of lack or stinginess of the sources. Here we will try to show how to extract full profit of a grain and livestock tithe register from present-day Argentine province of Entre Ríos, dated 1808-1809, not only valuable because of its rarity: that area had been experiencing a rapid economic growth in the previous decades, which probably anticipated the quick development of the argentine cattle economy on the first half of the XIX century.