Mangan / Mignolo / Silverblatt Trading Roles

Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8666-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: Latin America Otherwise

A social history of trade in a colonial city in Peru, arguing that markets, stores, and taverns were important sites of cultural creation and showing how the gender and ethnic identities of participants affected how they adapted to the market economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mangan, Jane E.

Mignolo, Walter D.

Silverblatt, Irene

Saldívar-Hull, Sonia

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Einzel- und Großhandel
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the series vii

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

1. “The Largest Population and the Most Commerce”: The Genesis of Potosi’s Urban Economy 21

2. Making Room to Sell: Location, Regulation, and the Properties of Urban Trade 48

3. Light on the Chicha, Heavy on the Bread: The Colonial Market for Brewing and Baking 76

4. The World of Credit in the City of Silver 106

5. Enterprising Women: Female Traders in the Urban Economy 134

6. ?Vale un Potosi? The Urban Marketplace in the Face of Decline, 1650–1700 161

Conclusion 178

Appendix 191

Notes 197

Glosary 251

Bibliography 255

Index 267

Über Autor(innen)

Jane E. Mangan is Assistant Professor of History at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. She is the editor of Natural and Moral History of the Indies, by José de Acosta (also published by Duke University Press).