British Textile Trade in South America in the Nineteenth Century

Informationen zum Autor Manuel Llorca-Jaña is a Fondecyt research fellow at the University of Chile and is currently a visiting lecturer in world economic history at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Department of Economics and Business). He has published articles in edited collections and in Business History and the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History. He is also a regular contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Llorca-Jaña's Ph.D. thesis was short-listed for the Coleman Prize in 2011, awarded by the Association of Business Historians to the best Ph.D. thesis in business history. He has presented papers at diverse conferences in Paris, Milan, Utrecht, Venice, Barcelona, London, Leicester, Reading, Nottingham and Swansea. Klappentext This book explores the marketing chain of British textile exports to South America and sheds light on South Americans' consumer behaviour. Zusammenfassung This is the first work on British textile exports to South America during the nineteenth century. Contrary to the prevailing views! British exports to South America were transacted at very high rates during the first decades after independence. This book explores the marketing chain of textile exports to the region and sheds light on South Americans' consumer behaviour. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Trade Data: 1. Introduction; 2. Britain's textile exports to the Southern Cone: the data; Part II. The Market Chain: 3. The main links in the market chain; 4. Knowing, adapting to, and managing demand; 5. Contracts and commissions; 6. Paying for textiles: return remittances; Part III. Explaining the Data: 7. Developments in the industrialising core; 8. Developments in the Southern Cone; 9. Conclusions.

Product details

• Authors: Manuel Llorca-Ja¿a, Manuel Llorca-Jana, Manuel Llorca-Jaña
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.10.2014
• EAN: 9781107480940
• ISBN: 978-1-107-48094-0
• No. of pages: 410
• Series: Cambridge Latin American Studi; Cambridge Latin American Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; South America, History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, HISTORY / Latin America / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Economic history, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, International Economics, History of the Americas, Manufacturing industries, International trade and commerce, Industrialisation and industrial history, Apparel, garment and textile industries