Domesticating the World African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization

Name: Domesticating the World African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization
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ISBN: 9780520254237

ISBN-10: 0520254236

ISBN-13: 9780520254237

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jeremy Prestholdt

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This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon--and one driven solely by western interests--by offering a compelling new perspective on global interconnectivity in the nineteenth century. InDomesticating the World,Jeremy Prestholdt examines East African consumers' changing desires for material goods from around the world in an era of sweeping social and economic change. Exploring complex webs of local consumer demands that affected patterns of exchange and production as far away as India and the United States, the book challenges presumptions that Africa's global relationships have always been dictated by outsiders. Full of rich, and often surprising vignettes…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Jeremy Prestholdt is Assistant Professor History at the University of California, San Diego.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Similitude and Global Relationships: Self-Representation in Mutsamudu



The Social Logics of Need: Consumer Desire in Mombasa



The Global Repercussions of Consumerism: East African Consumers and Industrialization



Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Domestication: Consumer Imports in Zanzibar



Symbolic Subjection and Social Rebirth: Objectification in Urban Zanzibar



Picturesque Contradictions: Taxonomies of East Africa


Conclusion


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index