Resumen

ROSENBLITT B., Jaime. The Business of the House Hainsworth and Company in Tacna and Arica, 1841-1868. A Look at Regional Trade. Am. Lat. Hist. Econ [online]. 2017, vol.24, n.3, pp.41-70. ISSN 2007-3496.  https://doi.org/10.18232/alhe.v24i3.865.

This article traces the activities of Hainsworth and Company to explain the reasons for its commercial success and which were the elements that distinguished it from other foreign companies and merchants who acted in the Tacna-Arica region at the same time. The narrative includes investors with interests throughout the South American Pacific coast, medium-sized traders looking for opportunities to occupy a place in mining, retailers, muleteers and mining entrepreneurs of different levels of technicians. All of them looking for fortune.

Palabras llave : Hainsworth and Company; Tacna-Arica region; Peru; South American Pacific; trade; 19th Century.