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Access to new plants and consumer goods such as sugar, tobacco, and
chocolate from the beginning of the sixteenth century onwards would
massively change the way people lived, especially in how and what
they consumed. While global markets were consequently formed and
provided access to these new commodities that increasingly became
important in the 'Old World', especially with regard to the
establishment early modern consumer societies. This book brings
together specialists from a range of historical fields to analyse
the establishment of these commodity chains from the Americas to
Europe as well as their cultural implications.
Access to new plants and consumer goods such as sugar, tobacco, and
chocolate from the beginning of the sixteenth century onwards would
massively change the way people lived, especially in how and what
they consumed. While global markets were consequently formed and
provided access to these new commodities that increasingly became
important in the 'Old World', especially with regard to the
establishment early modern consumer societies. This book brings
together specialists from a range of historical fields to analyse
the establishment of these commodity chains from the Americas to
Europe as well as their cultural implications.
Die in diesem Band versammelten Essays sind dem Historiker und
Lateinamerikanisten Friedrich Katz (1927-2010) gewidmet. Sie fussen
auf einem Symposium, das im Herbst 2011 zu seinen Ehren in Wien
abgehalten wurde, und vereinen unterschiedliche Perspektiven auf
sein Leben und Werk. Friedrich Katz war einer der grossen
Sozialhistoriker zur lateinamerikanischen Geschichte des 20.
Jahrhunderts. Seine Arbeiten zur Mexikanischen Revolution zahlen zu
den grundlegenden Werken uber dieses Thema. Er verstand es, in
quellenkritischer Tiefe die Besonderheiten Mexikos in die
Weltgeschichte einzuschreiben. Andererseits verschlug eben diese
Weltgeschichte ihn selbst als Kind von Wien uber Berlin, Paris und
New York nach Mexiko, nach 1945 wieder nach Wien und Ostberlin und
schliesslich nach Chicago. The essays collected in this volume are
dedicated to the historian and Latin Americanist Friedrich Katz
(1927-2010). They are based on a symposium held in his honour in
Vienna in the autumn of 2011 and bring together varying
perspectives of his life and work. As one of the great social
historians of our time, Friedrich Katz had an encyclopaedic
knowledge of the sources relevant to Latin America's twentieth
century history. His studies of the Mexican Revolution rank
foremost among contributions to the field. More than anyone before
he succeeded in relating the specifics of Mexico's history to the
broader processes of global history. That same global history
impacted repeatedly on Katz' own life: he was forced to leave
Vienna as a child and moved with his family to Mexico, via Berlin,
Paris and New York; he returned to Vienna after 1945 only to leave
again for East Berlin before finally settling in Chicago.
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