Plebeian Consumers - Global Connections, Local Trade, Foreign Goods in Nineteenth Century

Plebeian Consumers is both a global and local study. It tells the story of how peasants, day workers, formerly enslaved people, and small landholders became the largest consumers of foreign commodities in nineteenth-century Colombia, and dynamic participants of an increasingly interconnected world. By studying how plebeian consumers altered global processes from below, Ana Maria Otero-Cleves challenges ongoing stereotypes about Latin America's peripheral role in the world economy through the nineteenth century, and its undisputed dependency on the Global North. By exploring Colombians' everyday practices of consumption, Otero-Cleves also invites historians to pay close attention to the intimate relationship between the political world and the economic world in nineteenth-century Latin America. She also sheds light on new methodologies and approaches for studying the material world of men and women who left little record of their own experiences.

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• Authors: Ana Maria Otero-Cleves, Ana María Otero-Cleves, Ana Maria (University of York) Otero-Cleves
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9781009435598
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0943559-8
• No. of pages: 278
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Print on Demand; Cambridge Latin American Studies
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; South America, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Latin America, Capitalism, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, HISTORY / Latin America / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, Economic history, Economic systems & structures, General and world history, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people