Ana María Otero-Cleves

Plebeian Consumers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Plebeian Consumers details the key role played by Colombia's popular consumers in altering and challenging global patterns of exchange in the nineteenth century. The book will interest historians of Latin America, as well as scholars of capitalism and the history of consumption"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9781009435598
• ISBN-10: 1009435590
• Artikelnr.: 70291572

Autorenporträt

Ana María Otero-Cleves is Lecturer in the History of Latin America at the University of York. She was the winner of the Toynbee First Book Manuscript Workshop Competition in 2022. This is her first book.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: a global view on local consumption
1. Consumers, citizens, and the republican project
2. From ferias to tiendas: consumers and the import trade
3. Zarazas, Bayetas, and Bogotanas: adapting Foreign textiles to popular consumers' demands
4. Machetes, axes, and Foreign tools: demanding consumers, active citizens
5. Books, hats, and 'Foreign' coats: the paradoxes of cosmopolitan consumption
6. Soap, pills, and toiletries: domesticating foreign goods
Epilogue: a story of global capitalism from the periphery
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.