La emigración canario-americana durante la Época Moderna y sus condicionantes socio-económicos

Abstract

The canarian-american emigration process during the modern epoch is divided in tow stages. The first, whose beginning coincides with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in America and lasts to the end of the XVII century, is marked by the debate concerning the fact whether or nor it is possible to consider a speciafically canarian process of mass emigration due to the recen to the recent conquest of the Canary Islands and to the fact that the consolidation of canarian society is still not complete. The second, which starts off at the closure of the XVII century when the insular economic model establushed by the conquest, based on a subsector of the export and self-suficiency processes of the local market enters a critical period, is characterized by the so-called "blood tribute" or the obligation to settle the uninhabited territories of the New World in exchange for the maintenance os the Islands commercial privileges with the american continent.