Trading Roles Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosï¿½

Name: Trading Roles Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosï¿½
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ISBN: 9780822334705

ISBN-10: 0822334704

ISBN-13: 9780822334705

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jane E. Mangan, Walter Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt

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Located in the heart of the Andes, Potosi was arguably the most important urban center in the Western Hemisphere during the colonial era. It was internationally famous for its abundant silver mines and regionally infamous for its labor draft. Set in this context of opulence and oppression associated with the silver trade, Trading Roles emphasizes daily life in the city's streets, markets, and taverns. As Jane E. Mangan shows, food and drink transactions emerged as the most common site of interaction for Potosinos of different ethnic and class backgrounds. Within two decades of Potosi's founding in the 15405, the majority of the city's inhabitants no longer produced food or alcohol for…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 5/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Jane E. Mangan is associate professor of history at Davidson College and the author of Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosi. She is currently researching a book on the subject of family in sixteenth-century Spain and Peru.



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Acknowledgments


Introduction



"The Largest Population and the Most Commerce": The Genesis of Potosi's Urban Economy



Making Room to Sell: Location, Regulation, and the Properties of Urban Trade



Light on the Chicha, Heavy on the Bread: The Colonial Market for Brewing and Baking



The World of Credit in the City of Silver



Enterprising Women: Female Traders in the Urban Economy



?Vale un Potosi? The Urban Marketplace in the Face of Decline, 1650-1700


Conclusion


Appendix


Notes


Glosary


Bibliography


Index