Trade as a Sign of Civility in the colonial Press of Buenos Aires (1801-1810)
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Trade and civility were found to be knotted in the Buenos Aires colonial press as an identi-ty strategy to show that Buenos Aires was on par with European cities and that the ideas of French enlightenment mediated by Spanish Catholic intellectuals also reigned. Trade was a sign of civility, as it involved dialogue between the parties, as well as the payment of real taxes as opposed to smuggling. The Buenos Aires press questioned contraband as a practice linked to the urban barbarism that had to be banished as well as promoting civility and commerce as the way to inhabit the city in favor of the happiness of the people.
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