Italian immigrants to the United States and Argentina hungered for
the products of home. Merchants imported Italian cheese, wine,
olive oil, and other commodities to meet the demand. The two sides
met in migrant marketplaces—urban spaces that linked a mobile
people with mobile goods in both real and imagined ways. Elizabeth
Zanoni provides a cutting-edge comparative look at Italian people
and products on the move between 1880 and 1940. Concentrating on
foodstuffs—a trade dominated by Italian entrepreneurs in New York
and Buenos Aires—Zanoni reveals how consumption of these
increasingly global imports affected consumer habits and identities
and sparked changing and competing connections between gender,
nationality, and ethnicity. Women in particular—by tradition
tasked with buying and preparing food—had complex interactions
that influenced both global trade and their community economies.
Zanoni conveys the complicated and often fraught values and
meanings that surrounded food, meals, and shopping. A
groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Migrant Marketplaces offers
a new perspective on the linkages between migration and trade that
helped define globalization in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries.
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