THE NOTION OF "ECONOMIC AREA" BY CARLOS SEMPAT ASSADOURIAN AND ITS POSSIBLITY OF USAGE IN REGIONAL HISTORIES OF DIFFERENT PLACES AND TIMES

Abstract

This work takes the concerns raised by Carlos Sempat Assadourian in the 1970s about the need to recover the notion of "economic space" from the constraints offered for empirical analysis by the territorial cuts, based both at the national and in the local, one for be too homogeneous and the other for too small. Its innovative approaches to the nature of the colonial system took as a basis the definition of a "Peruvian economic space", which did not recognize the territorial limits imposed. The analysis of this by far dynamic colonial inner market, allowed to Assadourian to observe a historical process of regional integration and disintegration where socioeconomic forms surprised by its long duration and where the factors analyzed historiographically there as "external", was sympathetically transformed into elements "internal" to the region itself. This significant contribution to the regional conceptualization was little used by historians Argentina until the 1980s, when those who were trying to study regional areas into the nineteenth century, were seeking to contribute to a national history too generalizing, registering their objects of study contexts broad enough to enable to retain its specific and internal dynamics, making them both operationally comparable with all national and international regulations.