Estado, tierra y poblamiento en la campaña sur de Buenos Aires durante la época de Rosas. La frontera del arroyo Azul

Abstract

This paper tries to contribute to the knowledge of the land policy developed by the provincial State of Buenos Aires in the first half of the nineteenth century, specially during the Rosas government. Throughout the analysis of the micro-regional impact of the central policy in a case study, the frontier of the Azul brook one, it is discussed the historiographical thesis that has traditionally considered the Rosas government as the forger of an agrarian structure of large entailed estate in the south frontier of Buenos Aires. On the contrary, the study of Azul shows the predominance of rural property and production unities of small and medium size, which have coexisted with others of big one.