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American Globalization, 1492–1850 Trans-Cultural Consumption in Spanish Latin America
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
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
Biography
Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla is Full Professor at Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain.
Ilaria Berti teaches history of the Americas at Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy.
Omar Svriz-Wucherer is Postdoctoral Researcher at Project GECEM (ERC-StG.- 679371) and teaches Early Modern History at Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain.
