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.

Autorentext
MARTA VICENTE is Assistant Professor in History and Women's Studies at the University of Kansas, USA.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Family and the Calico Trade in the Spanish Empire The Personal is Commercial: Women and Family in the Race to Make Calicoes A Microcosm of Families: Workers, Factories, Owners The Craze for Calicoes: Selling Fashion in Spain and America From Barcelona to Veracruz: Clothing the Spanish Empire Conclusion