Ana María Otero-Cleves
Biographic Data
| ID | 699152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ana María Otero-Cleves |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ana María |
| FAMILY NAME | Otero-Cleves |
| SIGNATURE | OTERO-CLEVES A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de los Andes |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1926-1836 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Consumption and Economic Life in Modern Latin America
Commodities and global trade are central to the history of Latin America. As scholars have pointed out, the cultivation, extraction, and shipping of commodities produced in the Americas have been vital in deepening our knowledge of the scale of its global entanglements. While crucial for understanding the region's political, economic and cultural past, this approach has inadvertently overlooked the equally vital role of consumption. This article …
Yerba Mate: The Drink that Shaped a Nation . By Julia J.S. Sarreal Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant . By Seth Garfield
Journal Article Yerba Mate: The Drink that Shaped a Nation. By Julia J.S. Sarreal Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant. By Seth Garfield Get access Yerba Mate: The Drink that Shaped a Nation. By Julia J.S. Sarreal (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023. 394 pp. $85.00). Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant. By Seth Garfield (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 3…
This Mixed Species of Population Will Consume: Atlantic Expectations about Spanish American Consumers in the Age of Revolutions, 1780-1831
This article explores how late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century ideas of the Spanish American consumer took shape. It argues that Atlantic debates on consumption, on the one hand, and on racial difference, on the other, provided a common ground on which foreign visitors, diplomats and commentators, as well as Colombian elite intellectuals, could jointly create a positive idea of the Spanish American consumer. The article demonstrates that…
Presentation. Paths, Detours, and Connections: Consumption and Its Contribution to Latin American History
Despite the increase and variety of historical literature in the region in the last decades, the history of consumption, as a proper area of study, has received only modest scholarly attention from Latin American historians. With the aim of contributing to the emerging literature on the subject, this essay illustrates the relevance of studies on the history of consumption for a better and novel understanding of Latin America’s social, economic, a…
Foreign Machetes and Cheap Cotton Cloth: Popular Consumers and Imported Commodities in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
This article examines the consumption of foreign machetes and, to a lesser extent, imported textiles by peasants, smallholders, and artisans in nineteenth-century Colombia to show that the popular sectors of society were the largest consumers of foreign goods and as such were able to change market conditions and make specific demands regarding the quality of imported products intended for their consumption. By so doing, the article questions the …
Transnational South America: Experiences, Ideas, and Identities, 1860s-1900s
Ori Preuss's book is a cultural history of international relations focused on the connections, shared spaces, and flows of Brazilian and Argentine intellectuals from the mid-nineteenth century to the beginnings of the twentieth. Preuss studies the complex dynamic of competitiveness and cooperation between these countries' elites through “diverse transnational activities such as translation, travel, public visits and conferences, the print press, …
Jeneros de gusto y sobretodos ingleses”: El impacto cultural del consumo de bienes ingleses por la clase alta bogotana del siglo XIX
This article examines the cultural impact of the consumption of English goods by Bogotá’s upper class during the nineteenth century. It suggests that the consumption of English commodities after the country’s independence was one of the main mechanisms employed by the upper classes to ensure their social position as well as to build a modern nation according to European standards. Hence, the article explores the role that consumption of foreign g…
Presentation. Paths, Detours, and Connections: Consumption and Its Contribution to Latin American History
Despite the increase and variety of historical literature in the region in the last decades, the history of consumption, as a proper area of study, has received only modest scholarly attention from Latin American historians. With the aim of contributing to the emerging literature on the subject, this essay illustrates the relevance of studies on the history of consumption for a better and novel understanding of Latin America’s social, economic, a…
Jeneros de gusto y sobretodos ingleses”: El impacto cultural del consumo de bienes ingleses por la clase alta bogotana del siglo XIX
This article examines the cultural impact of the consumption of English goods by Bogotá’s upper class during the nineteenth century. It suggests that the consumption of English commodities after the country’s independence was one of the main mechanisms employed by the upper classes to ensure their social position as well as to build a modern nation according to European standards. Hence, the article explores the role that consumption of foreign g…
Transnational South America: Experiences, Ideas, and Identities, 1860s-1900s
Ori Preuss's book is a cultural history of international relations focused on the connections, shared spaces, and flows of Brazilian and Argentine intellectuals from the mid-nineteenth century to the beginnings of the twentieth. Preuss studies the complex dynamic of competitiveness and cooperation between these countries' elites through “diverse transnational activities such as translation, travel, public visits and conferences, the print press, …
Foreign Machetes and Cheap Cotton Cloth: Popular Consumers and Imported Commodities in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
This article examines the consumption of foreign machetes and, to a lesser extent, imported textiles by peasants, smallholders, and artisans in nineteenth-century Colombia to show that the popular sectors of society were the largest consumers of foreign goods and as such were able to change market conditions and make specific demands regarding the quality of imported products intended for their consumption. By so doing, the article questions the …
Jeneros de gusto y sobretodos ingleses”: El impacto cultural del consumo de bienes ingleses por la clase alta bogotana del siglo XIX
This article examines the cultural impact of the consumption of English goods by Bogotá’s upper class during the nineteenth century. It suggests that the consumption of English commodities after the country’s independence was one of the main mechanisms employed by the upper classes to ensure their social position as well as to build a modern nation according to European standards. Hence, the article explores the role that consumption of foreign g…
Presentation. Paths, Detours, and Connections: Consumption and Its Contribution to Latin American History
Despite the increase and variety of historical literature in the region in the last decades, the history of consumption, as a proper area of study, has received only modest scholarly attention from Latin American historians. With the aim of contributing to the emerging literature on the subject, this essay illustrates the relevance of studies on the history of consumption for a better and novel understanding of Latin America’s social, economic, a…
Foreign Machetes and Cheap Cotton Cloth: Popular Consumers and Imported Commodities in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
This article examines the consumption of foreign machetes and, to a lesser extent, imported textiles by peasants, smallholders, and artisans in nineteenth-century Colombia to show that the popular sectors of society were the largest consumers of foreign goods and as such were able to change market conditions and make specific demands regarding the quality of imported products intended for their consumption. By so doing, the article questions the …
Transnational South America: Experiences, Ideas, and Identities, 1860s-1900s
Ori Preuss's book is a cultural history of international relations focused on the connections, shared spaces, and flows of Brazilian and Argentine intellectuals from the mid-nineteenth century to the beginnings of the twentieth. Preuss studies the complex dynamic of competitiveness and cooperation between these countries' elites through “diverse transnational activities such as translation, travel, public visits and conferences, the print press, …
This Mixed Species of Population Will Consume: Atlantic Expectations about Spanish American Consumers in the Age of Revolutions, 1780-1831
This article explores how late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century ideas of the Spanish American consumer took shape. It argues that Atlantic debates on consumption, on the one hand, and on racial difference, on the other, provided a common ground on which foreign visitors, diplomats and commentators, as well as Colombian elite intellectuals, could jointly create a positive idea of the Spanish American consumer. The article demonstrates that…
Yerba Mate: The Drink that Shaped a Nation . By Julia J.S. Sarreal Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant . By Seth Garfield
Journal Article Yerba Mate: The Drink that Shaped a Nation. By Julia J.S. Sarreal Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant. By Seth Garfield Get access Yerba Mate: The Drink that Shaped a Nation. By Julia J.S. Sarreal (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023. 394 pp. $85.00). Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World's Most Caffeine-Rich Plant. By Seth Garfield (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 3…
Consumption and Economic Life in Modern Latin America
Commodities and global trade are central to the history of Latin America. As scholars have pointed out, the cultivation, extraction, and shipping of commodities produced in the Americas have been vital in deepening our knowledge of the scale of its global entanglements. While crucial for understanding the region's political, economic and cultural past, this approach has inadvertently overlooked the equally vital role of consumption. This article …
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works) · Consumption (sociology (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Latin Americans (4 works) · Politics (4 works)