RT Book, Whole
T1 American Globalization, 1492-1850. Trans-Cultural Consumption in Spanish Latin America
A1 Yun Casalilla, Bartolomé
A1 Berti, Ilaria
A1 Svriz-Wucherer, Omar
K1 Spanish empire
K1 Global history
K1 Globalization
K1 Atlantic World
K1 Consumption
K1 Eurasia
K1 Latin America
K1 America
K1 Proyecto GECEM
AB 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.
PB Routledge
SN 9781003168058
YR 2021
FD 2021-06-29
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10433/12500
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10433/12500
LA en
NO New York: Routledge, 2021.
NO GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, www.gecem.eu.
NO www.gecem.eu
NO https://www.gecem.eu/publications/index.html
NO GECEM Project (ERC-Starting Grant), ref. 679371, Horizon 2020, project hosted at UPO
DS RIO
RD May 9, 2026