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Author Vicente, Marta V., author.

Title Clothing the Spanish Empire : families and the calico trade in the early modern Atlantic world / Marta V. Vicente
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 189 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series The Americas in the early modern Atlantic world
Americas in the early modern Atlantic world.
Contents Family and the Calico Trade in the Spanish Empire -- The Personal is Commercial: Women and Family in the Race to Make Calicoes -- A Microcosm of Families: Workers, Factories, Owners -- The Craze for Calicoes: Selling Fashion in Spain and America -- From Barcelona to Veracruz: Clothing the Spanish Empire
Summary By the 1780s in the city of Barcelona alone, more than 150 factories shipped calicoes to every major city in Spain and across the Atlantic, from Veracruz to Montevideo. Catalan, Basque and Castilian families sent relatives throughout the Iberian Peninsula and Spanish America, hoping to enrich themselves from the trade in calicoes. Clothing the Spanish Empire 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-173) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Cotton textile industry -- Spain -- History
Calico -- Spain -- History
Families -- Economic aspects -- Spain -- History
Fashion -- Spain -- History
Clothing and dress -- Spain -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Exports & Imports.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Trade & Tariffs.
Calico
Clothing and dress
Cotton textile industry
Families -- Economic aspects
Fashion
Spain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230603417
0230603416
9781403972262
1403972265
9781349533527
1349533521