This book follows on the last 20 years of renewed interest in studies on agrarian history in Argentina, which has allowed us to draw a much more complex and realistic picture of the agrarian economy of Río de la Plata than that which was put forth in the 1960s and 1970s. This particular volume offers a fairly exhaustive panorama of the agrarian economy in the pampas zone of the province of Buenos Aires during the first half of the nineteenth century, as well as quite a few of its social aspects.
Chapter 1 takes a very detailed look at data that come from the contribución directa in 1839 (one of the few direct taxes in the Buenos Aires budget at that time). The date chosen makes sense, because it was the year when an attempt was made to adjust the tax to better reflect the reality of the agrarian and...
