Exploraciones y estudios sobre los nuevos espacios económicos durante el siglo XIX. Santiago del Estero, 1850-1875

Abstract

This article pretends to analyze the different ways through which the liberal santiaguenian elite planned the capitalist implantation from the second part of the XIX century and the different projects of modernization in the economical area of a territory characterized by historical marginality, unequal and extreme ecological areas, and scanty economical sources to go ahead. Ascribing to the philosophy of progress, following the alberdian ideas and ready to insert the santiaguenian productions in the economical circumference of the capitalist system, this elites -as far as they were also the State- developed some practices whose first objective was the study of the economical areas where the livestock productions demanded by the European market could take place. The conjunction of the local interests with the European needs will lead to the study of the Salado Norte River valley, the Dulce River valley and the place known as Mesón de Fierro (Iron Table). This three areas will be connected between themselves and with the Paraná River ports by the railway.