Soap of Mendoza: Contribution to the Study of Trans-Andean Trade (1697-1870)

• Main Authors: Lacoste Adunka, Michelle, Lacoste, Pablo, Mujica, Fernando
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin) 2019
• Subjects: Soap Mendoza; Typical Latin American products; Trans-Andean Trade; Economic history; Jabón de Mendoza; Productos típicos latinoamericanos; Comercio trasandino; Historia económica; Alta; Mercado; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/2241; https://doi.org/10.18441/ibam.19.2019.70.133-155

In the framework of the trans-Andean trade of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a relevant role fitted Mendoza’s soap. This was a typical product, famous for its quality and highly demanded by foreign markets: it was exported regularly to Chile and Peru, and it was sold in Califo...