Migrant Marketplaces (ePub)

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.|
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Manly Markets in le due Americhe, 1880–1914
2. Race and Trade Policies in Migrant Marketplaces, 1880–1914
3. Tipo Italiano: The Production and Sale of Italian-Style Goods, 1880–1914
4. "Pro Patria": Women and the Normalization of Migrant Consumption during World War I
5. Reorienting Migrant Marketplaces in le due Americhe during the Interwar Years
6. Fascism and the Competition for Migrant Consumers, 1922–1940
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index|Elizabeth Zanoni is an assistant professor of history at Old Dominion University.