De Los Arcos a Nueva España y retorno: Manuel Calixto Ascorve Mendiri (1769-1832) [From Los Arcos to New Spain and return: Manuel Calixto Ascorve Mendiri (1769-1832)]

Abstract

This paper examines (the figure of) Manuel Calixto Ascorbe Mendiri (1769-1832), a Navarrese who emigrated to New Spain and from where, after an adventure originally commercial and later military and political, he did not return to Los Arcos as the rich immigrant (Indiano) he had expected. It is in his home country where he forged his importance, not as a trader but as an industrialist, in a moment of important changes for Navarra and Spain, being an example of the industrial class in Navarra, which starts to fourish in the 19th century, precedent of many other small industrialists.