Argentina and Great Britain: studyng an asymmetrical relationship trough domestic material culture

Abstract

La presencia masiva de loza inglesa en Buenos Aires está fechada para los finales del siglo XVIII, cuando el ingreso de estos productos no era legal. El artículo analiza el contexto económico y social que fomentó el abandono delos objetos de consumo españoles para favorecer los ingleses, cuantificando el tipo de cada uno de ellos por época y clase de contexto social.

For Argentina, and particularly Buenos Aires, no economic relations were more intense in the 19th century than those it maintained with Great Britain. Its whole industrial, trade, and financial structure depended on Britain, despite the fact that Argentina was not a colony, nor was there a British military force or a centralized institutional system to defend investments. The origins of this relationship can be traced to the events of the late 18th century, when consumer goods from Great Britain achieved absolute supremacy in Buenos Aires due to certain peculiarities in the city’s history.