Foreign Machetes and Cheap Cotton Cloth: Popular Consumers and Imported Commodities in Nineteenth-Century Colombia Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) 97(3): 423-456; doi:10.1215/00182168-3933828 (original) (raw)
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