Entre la crisis económica y la migración alemana. Las actividades del comerciante Cristóbal Guillermo Schutte en Arequipa, 1827–1850

Abstract

– This research seeks first, to explain the effects generated by Independence in Arequipa and the magnitude of the economic crisis in the region during the early years of republican life; years also characterized by the arrival of a large group of European traders in the city, including some Germans from the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg and Bremen. Second, to learn more about German migration to Arequipa in the first half of the nineteenth century, through the activities of one of its most prominent members, bremense Christopher William