| Description |
viii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Linking levels of analysis |
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Linking levels of analysis.
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| Contents |
1. Giving Importance to Imports / Benjamin Orlove and Arnold J. Bauer -- 2. Changing Consumption Patterns and Everyday Life in Two Peruvian Regions: Food, Dress, and Housing in the Central and Southern Highlands (1820-1920) / Thomas Kruggeler -- 3. From Benches to Sofas: Diversification of Patterns of Consumption in San Jose (1857-1861) / Patricia Vega Jimenez -- 4. Foreign Cloth in the Lowland Frontier: Commerce and Consumption of Textiles in Bolivia, 1830-1930 / Erick D. Langer -- 5. Chile in the Belle Epoque: Primitive Producers, Civilized Consumers / Benjamin Orlove and Arnold J. Bauer -- 6. Imports and Standards of Justice on the Mexico-United States Border / Josiah McC. Heyman -- 7. Building from Migration: Imported Design and Everyday Use of Migrant Houses in Mexico / Peri L. Fletcher |
| Summary |
"The contributors to The Allure of the Foreign trace instances of the demand for imported goods and their patterns of use - as well as the smaller number of cases in which local goods retained their popularity - to investigate why foreign goods became so popular only after the creation of independent Latin American republics. They find that this fascination stemmed from the cultural dilemmas of the new Latin American nations. Caught between a desire to separate themselves from their former European rulers and the wish to join a new global modernity, Latin Americans developed ways of using European and North American goods to show off newly invented national identities."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index |
| Subject |
Consumer goods -- Latin America -- History.
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Consumption (Economics) -- Latin America -- History.
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Imports -- Latin America -- History.
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| Author |
Orlove, Benjamin S.
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| LC no. |
96045899 |
| ISBN |
0472106643 (acid-free paper) |
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