Domesticating the World - African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization

Zusatztext "The breadth and methodological approach! along with the singularity of its content! make this book a highly necessary addition to the ever-growing body of scholarship on globalization." Informationen zum Autor Jeremy Prestholdt is Assistant Professor History at the University of California! San Diego. Klappentext " Ingeniously stands the study of globalization and trade on its head."-Edward Alpers! Chair of Department of History! UCLA Zusammenfassung Exploring complex webs of local consumer demands that affected patterns of exchange and production as far away as India and the United States, this book challenges presumptions that Africa's global relationships have always been dictated by outsiders. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Introduction: Histories and Globality 1. Similitude and Global Relationships: Self-Representation in Mutsamudu 2. The Social Logics of Need: Consumer Desire in Mombasa 3. The Global Repercussions of Consumerism: East African Consumers and Industrialization 4. Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Domestication: Consumer Imports in Zanzibar 5. Symbolic Subjection and Social Rebirth: Objectification in Urban Zanzibar 6. Picturesque Contradictions: New Taxonomies of East Africa Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Prestholdt, Prestholdt Jeremy
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2008
• EAN: 9780520254237
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25423-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: California World History Library; California World History Libra; California World History Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Globalization, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, East Africa, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Social and cultural history, Consumerism