Isleños en Cuba y Puerto Rico (del siglo XVIII a mediados del XIX)

Abstract

An approach is made to the issue of emigration in the Canary Islands, which constitutes a constant historical structure that has attenuated social conflicts, because in the worst moments of misery there has always been the possibility of fleeing to America, mainly to Cuba. Socioeconomic relations between the Canary Islands and America have been addressed on several occasions; nowadays they constitute a corpus of studies that allow to reconstruct a good part of the population displacements and the commercial traffics and, thus, to be able to reveal keys of the commercial articulation and of the unequal exchanges.