Jane E Mangan

Trading Roles

Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí

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Produktbeschreibung

A social history of trade in a colonial city in Peru, arguing that markets, stores, and taverns were important sites of cultural creation and showing how the gender and ethnic identities of participants affected how they adapted to the market economy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 165mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780822334583
• ISBN-10: 0822334585
• Artikelnr.: 21845736

Autorenporträt

Jane E. Mangan is Assistant Professor of History at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. She is the editor of Natural and Moral History of the Indies, by José de Acosta (also published by Duke University Press).

Inhaltsangabe

About the series vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. “The Largest Population and the Most Commerce”: The Genesis of Potosi’s
Urban Economy 21
2. Making Room to Sell: Location, Regulation, and the Properties of Urban
Trade 48
3. Light on the Chicha, Heavy on the Bread: The Colonial Market for Brewing
and Baking 76
4. The World of Credit in the City of Silver 106
5. Enterprising Women: Female Traders in the Urban Economy 134
6. ?Vale un Potosi? The Urban Marketplace in the Face of Decline, 1650–1700
161
Conclusion 178
Appendix 191
Notes 197
Glosary 251
Bibliography 255
Index 267