Una aproximación a la participación de las mujeres en el comercio de Tenerife en el siglo XVIII. La compañía Bini y Dugi
- Ana Rosa Pérez Álvarez 1
- María Eugenia Monzón Perdomo 2
- 1 Departamento de Geografía e Historia, Universidad de La Laguna (España)
- 2 Departamento, Geografía e Historia, Universidad de La Laguna (España)
ISSN: 0213-9472
Ano de publicación: 2018
Número: 200
Páxinas: 197-210
Tipo: Artigo
Outras publicacións en: Revista de Historia Canaria
Resumo
The purpose of this work is to begin to unravel the role of women in commercial activities, developed in Tenerife in the second half of the 18th century. At present, we can already affirm that in the Old Regime the females monopolized the exchanges in the local markets, in charge of the supply of the basic consumption products. The detailed analysis of commercial companies, founded in that century, shows that women actively collaborated in this scale of transactions. Hidden behind the so-called “men of commerce” we discovered authentic “women merchants” who acted, directly or indirectly, in the economic matters that concerned the family.