Winner of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Best First Book Prize!
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.
Author(s): Marta V. Vicente
Series: The Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 200
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
1 Family and the Calico Trade in the Spanish Empire......Page 20
2 The Personal Is Commercial: Women and Family in the Race to Make Calicoes......Page 34
3 A Microcosm of Families: Workers, Factories, Owners......Page 54
4 The Craze for Calicoes: Selling Fashion in Spain and America......Page 76
5 From Barcelona to Veracruz: Clothing the Spanish Empire......Page 96
Conclusion......Page 126
Notes......Page 134
Bibliography......Page 172
A......Page 186
B......Page 187
C......Page 188
E......Page 190
F......Page 191
G......Page 192
I......Page 193
M......Page 194
P......Page 196
S......Page 197
W......Page 199
Z......Page 200
