The textile industry in Latin America
The textile industry is one of the oldest productive activities in Latin America. In the Andes and Mesoamerica, textile production was already very important in pre-Hispanic times and continued to be so during the centuries of colonial domination. The emergence of colonial obrajes, the regional vari...
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Centro de Estudios de Historia Económica Argentina y Latinoamericana (CEHEAL)
2013
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| Acceso en línea: | https://ojs.economicas.uba.ar/H-ind/article/view/444 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=hindus&d=444_oai |
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| Sumario: | The textile industry is one of the oldest productive activities in Latin America. In the Andes and Mesoamerica, textile production was already very important in pre-Hispanic times and continued to be so during the centuries of colonial domination. The emergence of colonial obrajes, the regional variations of this development, the links with commercial capital, their role in shaping colonial markets and their contribution to the development of capitalism were issues that attracted great attention from Latin Americanists. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the importance of the sector did not diminish, and the textile industry occupied a prominent place in the establishment of modern industry. As a whole, the articles that make up the dossier cover a diverse temporal and spatial arc, and explore, from different analytical and methodological frameworks, some of the most important dimensions of the development of the Latin American textile industry. |
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