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

• Autore: Vicente Marta V
• Pubblicazione: Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2006.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (200 p.)
• Disciplina: 382.45677210946
• Soggetto topico: Cotton textile industry - Spain - History; Calico - Spain - History; Families - Economic aspects - Spain - History; Fashion - Spain - History; Clothing and dress - Spain - History
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Clothing the Spanish empire
• ISBN: 1-281-36275-1; 9786611362751; 0-230-60341-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784155503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World