Estrategias de inversión y prácticas de transmisión patrimonial en el siglo XIX. Los Frías, una familia de la elite tucumana (Argentina)

Abstract

The evolution of wealth and investment strategies of one of the typical elite families from Tucumán is examined through two generations in order to determine the path of accumulation of capital reinvested in the sugar industry in mid-nineteenth century. How do the capital and political power of one elite sugar cane family from Argentina originate and evolve? This case study allows analysis of the issue through various strategies: buying temporalities of the jesuits, the accumulation of capital through the local and export trade, the export of mules livestock to Bolivia, the founding of the sugar mill industry, the investment in real estate, the matrimony alliances; the practices of heritance allocation and the networks between the central and local power. This family also played a leading role in consolidating the national political system.