Plebeian Consumers: Global Connections, Local Trade and Foreign Goods in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

Ana Maria Otero-Cleves

doi:10.1017/9781009435550

Plebeian Consumers: Global Connections, Local Trade and Foreign Goods in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

Ana Maria Otero-Cleves

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Number of pages	258
ISBN (Electronic)	9781009435550, 9781009435567
ISBN (Print)	1009435558, 1009435566
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009435550
Publication status	Published - Dec 2024

Publication series

Name	Cambridge Latin American Studies
Publisher	Cambridge University Press

Keywords

Latin American History
Colombian History
Moder History
Consumption and Material Culture
Political Economy
citizenship education England

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