El añil en la Venezuela ilustrada. Una historia inconclusa

Abstract

This articles intends to offer a synthetical view of a not much studied topic within the late colonial economic studies, from a double viewpoint: economical (growth conditions, crop profitability, export and market shares, etc.) and social (performance of the indigo haciendas and patterns of ownership). The shattering course of development of the indigoferea tintorea is followed, from its early import in the Capitanía General by Antonio de Arbide to de decline of its incipient market tendencies on the eve of the Independence.