El mercado de tierras en las fronteras interiores argentinas. La expansión territorial de Buenos Aires y Santiago del Estero en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX

Abstract

In this work we propose a comparative look of the territorial expansion of the Argentinean provinces of Buenos Aires and Santiago del Estero among the decades of 1850 and 1890. By means of the conjunction of regional studies we verify the mechanisms of appropriation of the public lands, the emergency of a legal apparatus that will try to regulate the occupation practices and the incorporation of economic agents of regional and national reach, in some cases investing in both provinces. This process will charge a strong impulse during the second half of the XIX century, incorporating new spaces to the world market of lands and primary goods. We study the mechanisms of conformation of the national market of lands, in what moment and through what type of transactions some managers from Buenos Aires began to take lands in the new markets that opened up in the far away internal frontiers of the north and who these investors were.