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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451134503321

Autore

Vicente Marta V

Titolo

Clothing the Spanish empire [[electronic resource] ] : families and the calico trade in the early modern Atlantic world / / Marta Vicente

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

ISBN

1-281-36275-1

9786611362751

0-230-60341-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2006.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Collana

Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Disciplina

382.45677210946

Soggetti

Cotton textile industry - Spain - History

Calico - Spain - History

Families - Economic aspects - Spain - History

Fashion - Spain - History

Clothing and dress - Spain - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Family and the Calico Trade in the Spanish Empire; 2 The Personal Is Commercial: Women and Family in the Race to Make Calicoes; 3 A Microcosm of Families: Workers, Factories, Owners; 4 The Craze for Calicoes: Selling Fashion in Spain and America; 5 From Barcelona to Veracruz: Clothing the Spanish Empire; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

By the 1780's in the city of Barcelona alone, more than 150 factories shipped calicoes to every major city in Spain and across the Atlantic. This book narrates the lives of families on both sides of the Atlantic who profited from the craze for calicoes, and in doing so helped the Spanish empire to flourish in the eighteenth century.