Notarial protocols: sources for the study of the credit relations in the rural Venezuela of the 19th. Century. Güiria´s canton, 1841-1884

Abstract

East work emphasizes the potential of the notarial protocols to understand the credit mechanisms in the rural Venezuela of the 19th century before the appearance of bank institutions. To this respect, it limits itself to the protocols related to this subject matter that they preserve in Cumaná's Principal Record, under the name Mariño, municipality that today corresponds to Güiria's former Canton, spatial frame of this study.