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....

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Main Author:	Otero Cleves, Ana María (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2025
Series:	Cambridge Latin American studies 133
Subjects:	Consumers / Colombia / History / 19th century Capitalism / Colombia / History / 19th century Commerce / History / 19th century
Online Access:	DE-12 DE-473 Volltext
Summary:	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 María 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
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2024)
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 258 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781009435550
DOI:	10.1017/9781009435550