American Globalization, 1492–1850: Trans-Cultural Consumption in Spanish Latin America (Early Modern Iberian History in Global Contexts)
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- Synopsis
- Following a study on the world flows of American products during early globalization, here the authors examine the reverse process. By analyzing the imperial political economy, the introduction, adaptation and rejection of new food products in America, as well as of other European, Asian and African goods, American Globalization, 1492–1850, addresses the history of consumerism and material culture in the New World, while also considering the perspective of the history of ecological globalization. This book shows how these changes triggered the formation of mixed imagined communities as well as of local and regional markets that gradually became part of a global economy. But it also highlights how these forces produced a multifaceted landscape full of contrasts and recognizes the plurality of the actors involved in cultural transfers, in which trade, persuasion and violence were entwined. The result is a model of the rise of consumerism that is very different from the ones normally used to understand the European cases, as well as a more nuanced vision of the effects of ecological imperialism, which was, moreover, the base for the development of unsustainable capitalism still present today in Latin America.
- Copyright:
- 2022
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 312 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781000422580
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781003168058, 9780367766764, 9781032024431
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 06/28/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Taylor & Francis, The right of Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla, Ilaria Berti, and Omar Svriz-Wucherer to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla
- Edited by:
- Ilaria Berti
- Edited by:
- Omar Svriz-Wucherer