At the north of Peru, Lambayeque is a very rich agricultural region that is facing the globalization process as Perú itself. So it is very important to state the region´s historical foundation in order to understand how Lambayeque people –peruvian people– will be related with the global market and also how its agricultural development, its crops and its agricultural products will be realized in such global market.

This article aims to reflect on historical vitality of a particular frontier area, between Loja and Huancabamba, two national states with a quite white population, with few Indians, almost without Creoles, with a border characterized different because it is translucent by its sacral symbolic movement. We reflects on the conversion of a sacred space into an economic space, its exploitation and use in accordance with kingdom interests, part of the Spanish empire. It analyzes how limits are already established and assumed, locally suffers from the pressures of trade, that were humanly established by long-standing ties and socio-economic changes that prepare the way to the republic.

Quinine and its exploitation during the second half of the 18th century are examples of how national representations and imaginaries are built and rebuilt at a given moment. During this time, quinine became a flagship product in the north of Peru’s viceroyalty, considered a defining element of the Peruvian national coat of arms. In the middle, there were system changes that historically favor independence, supposing the construction of a new type of human relations (modernity) that the republic, the nation, and the nation-state entail. We analyze and outline its demand in the 18th-19th century for what would later become known as a commodity (20th century) and the insertion of social agents in a European international consensus from a market that allows participation in a liberal capitalist system under construction. By 1800, in the locality, the region, the nation, South America, and ...

At the north of Peru, Lambayeque is a very rich agricultural region that is facing the globalization process as Perú itself. So it is very important to state the region´s historical foundation in order to understand how Lambayeque people –peruvian people– will be related with the global market and also how its agricultural development, its crops and its agricultural products will be realized in such global market.

El interés de este artículo es la de reflexionar sobre la vitalidad histórica de un particular espacio de frontera, entre Loja y Huancabamba, ubicado en el confín de dos estados nacionales con una sierra poblacionalmente bastante blanca, con pocos indios, casi sin criollos y con una frontera caracterizada diferente por cuanto es traslucida por su movimiento simbólico sacro. Reflexiona sobre la conversión de un espacio sagrado en un espacio económico, de explotación y uso en función de los intereses del reino, parte del imperio español. Analiza en cómo el límite ya establecido y asumido localmente sufre las presiones del comercio, humanamente establecido por vínculos de muy larga data, y los cambios socio-económicos que preparan el camino a la república.

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Durante el virreinato, una antigua Gran Región se extendió entre Trujillo del Perú y Cuenca del Perú; sus características humano-mercantiles perfilaron el carácter y los intereses de sus diferentes actores sociales. La rapidez creciente de la circulación de productos y la riqueza concomitante y creciente impulsaron intereses diferenciados entre nobles, señores, autoridades, plebe, indios en proceso de conversión en clase, pero también población negra esclava y liberta. Así, la independencia tuvo impacto diferenciado geográfica y humanamente: tanto San Martín como Bolívar encontraron el apoyo de este rico espacio norteño, aunque tuvieron que enfrentar y sobremontar encuentros y desencuentros de los diferentes intereses locales, regionales y luego de la independencia, nacionales.