Petty Capitalism In Spanish America

The Pulperos Of Puebla, Mexico City, Caracas, And Buenos Aires

Jay Kinsbruner (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

161 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-28281-3 (ISBN)

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Professor Kinsbruner's cross-cultural profile of small retail grocers offers significant insights into the roots of capitalism and sheds new light on the history of economic development in Latin America.

This book describes how people of limited means within the Spanish American economy managed to get started and survive as entrepreneurs between 1750 and 1850. Based on ten years of research and a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, Professor Kinsbruner's cross-cultural profile of small retail grocers offers significant insights that cont

Jay Kinsbruner is professor of history at Queens College and at the graduate center of the City University of New York.

Preface -- Basic Characteristics -- The Grocers as Entrepreneurs -- Capitalization and Profitability -- Problems of Grocery Store Ownership -- Conclusion -- Personal Profiles -- The Pulperos of Caracas in 1816: A Microview -- The Mexico City Grocers as Real Property Owners -- Capitalization of Some San Juan Pulperías and Tiendas de Mercería -- Dellplain Latin American Studies Published by Westview Press

Erscheinungsdatum	04.06.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 233 mm
Gewicht	498 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-367-28281-X / 036728281X
ISBN-13	978-0-367-28281-3 / 9780367282813
Zustand	Neuware