American Globalization, 1492–1850: Trans-Cultural Consumption in Spanish Latin America

ISBN-13: 9781032024431 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 312 str.

Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla; Ilaria Berti; Omar Svriz-Wucherer

Opis

Through the study of political economies, and the introduction, rejection and adaptation of foreign goods in Spanish Latin America, this book addresses key aspects of the history of consumption, offering new insights on ecological globalization and the rise of global consumerism.

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.

Chapters 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, and 13 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com

Spis treści

Introduction  Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla  Part I: The Political Economy of the Spanish Empire and the introduction of Eurasian Goods in the New World  1. Trans-Imperial, Transnational and Decentralized: The Traffic of African Slaves to Spanish America and Across the Isthmus of Panama, 1508–1651  Alejandro García-Montón  2. "The Reader’s Information" and "Norte de la Contratación". The Translation and Circulation of Commercial Information Between Seville and London Around 1700  José Manuel Díaz Blanco  3. European Imperialism, War, Strategic Commodities, and Ecological Limits: The Diffusion of Hemp in Spanish South America and Its Ghost Fibers  Manuel Díaz-Ordóñez  4. Spanish Women as Agents for a New Material Culture in Colonial Spanish America  Amelia Almorza Hidalgo  Part II: Food and Empire  5. The Introduction of Poultry Farming to the Indigenous People of the New Kingdom of Granada, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries  Gregorio Saldarriaga  6. Gifts, Imitation, Violence and Social Change: The Introduction of European Products in the First Decades of the American Conquest  Luis Miguel Córdoba Ochoa  7. Rice Revisited from Colonial Panama: Its Cultivation and Exportation  Bethany Aram and Manuel Enrique García-Falcón  8. In the Kitchen: Slave Agency and African Cuisine in the West Indies  Ilaria Berti  9. Food, Colonialism and the Quantum of Happiness  Rebecca Earle  Part III: America and the Eurasian Products in a Global Perspective  10. Elites, Women and Chinese Porcelain in New Spain and in Andalusia, circa 1600: A Global History  José L. Gasch-Tomás  11. "That in the Reducciones Had Been Noise of Weapons...": The Introduction of Firearms in the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Missions of Paraguay  Omar Svriz-Wucherer  12. Transatlantic Markets and the Consumption of Sevillian Art in the Viceroyalty of Peru: The Portobello Fairs in Tierra Firme (Seventeenth Century)  Fernando Quiles  Afterthoughts  13. From Goods to Commodities in Spanish America: Structural Changes and Ecological Globalization from the Perspective of the European History of Consumption  Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla