FAMILIAS AMERICANAS EN CÁDIZ: ESTRUCTURAS DOMÉSTICAS Y REDES SOCIALES DE RECIPROCIDAD (1773-1840)/AMERICAN FAMILIES IN CADIZ: DOMESTIC STRUCTURES AND SOCIAL NETS OF RECIPROCITY (1773-1840)

In the present article we offer an analysis of the Spanish-American resident families in Cadiz from the ends of the XVIIIth century up to the decade of the forties of the XIXth century. Along the same one, we try to take to end a theoretical, qualitative analysis, and a quantitative approximation, of the different forms of living together and social nets (kinship, work and peasantry), integrated what we have named domestic units. We understand for domestic unit the set of persons who were coexisting under the same roof.