%0 Journal Article %T Pr¨¢cticas sociales y control territorial en el caribe colombiano (1750- 1800): el contrabando en la pen¨ªnsula de la Guajira %A Guti¨¦rrez Meza %A Ruth Esther %J Memoria americana %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X this study focuses on how the territorial control and power struggle over commodity circulation energized social relations of individuals who lived in the colombian caribbean in the second half of the eighteenth century, more specifically, in the peninsula of la guajira. it will show how the inhabitants of this peninsula were favored by the geography of a territory whose accidents along the coastline -natural harbors- allow them to link the business dynamics of the region through smuggling activities with aliens. %K guajira peninsula %K smuggling %K territory. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1851-37512011000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en