Clothing the Spanish Empire : Families and the Calico Trade in the Early Modern Atlantic World /

Clothing the Spanish Empire : Families and the Calico Trade in the Early Modern Atlantic World /

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. This book 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 fl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vicente, Marta V. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Series:Americas in the early modern Atlantic world.
Subjects:
History.
European History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Modern History.
History, Modern.
Imperialism.
Europe > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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. This book 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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 189 pages)
ISBN:9780230603417
DOI:10.1057/9780230603417