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Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization Volume 6

Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization Volume 6

Prestholdt, Jeremy

Hardcover

Series: California World History Library, Book 6

EconomicsAfrican HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0520254244
ISBN13: 9780520254244
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Jan 15 2008
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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. 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 that outline forgotten trajectories of global trade and consumption, it powerfully demonstrates how contemporary globalization is foreshadowed in deep histories of intersecting and reciprocal relationships across vast distances.

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