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Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions

By: Jonathan Curry-Machado

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Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions

By: Jonathan Curry-Machado

The papers presented in this collection offer a wide range of cases, from Asia, Africa and the Americas, and broadly cover the last two centuries, in which commodities have led to the consolidation of a globalised economy and society – forging this out of distinctive local experiences of cultivation and production, and regional circuits of trade.

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1137283602

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Oil Palm

A Global History

By: Jonathan E. Robins

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Oil Palm

A Global History

By: Jonathan E. Robins

Oil palms are ubiquitous—grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. And as Jonathan E. Robins shows, sweeping social transformations carried the plant around the planet. First brought to the global stage in the holds of slave ships, palm oil became a quintessential commodity in the Industrial Revolution. Imperialists hungry for cheap fat subjugated Africa's oil palm landscapes and the people who worked them. In the twentieth century, the World Bank promulgated oil palm agriculture as a panacea to rural development in Southeast Asia and across the tropics. As plantation companies tore into rainforests, evicting farmers in the name of progress, the oil palm continued its rise to dominance, sparking new controversies over trade, land and labor rights, human health, and the environment. By telling the story of the oil palm across multiple centuries and continents, Robins demonstrates how the fruits of an African palm tree became a key commodity in the story of global capitalism, beginning in the eras of slavery and imperialism, persisting through decolonization, and stretching to the present day.

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UNC Press Books

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1469662906

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Cotton and Race Across the Atlantic

Britain, Africa, and America, 1900-1920

By: Jonathan Robins

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Cotton and Race Across the Atlantic

Britain, Africa, and America, 1900-1920

By: Jonathan Robins

The story of how African farmers, African-American scientists, and British businessmen struggled to turn colonial Africa into a major cotton exporter.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1580465676

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9781580465670

Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions

By: Jonathan Curry-Machado

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Cuban Sugar Industry

Transnational Networks and Engineering Migrants in Mid-Nineteenth Century Cuba

By: J. Curry-Machado

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Cuban Sugar Industry

Transnational Networks and Engineering Migrants in Mid-Nineteenth Century Cuba

By: J. Curry-Machado

Nineteenth-century Cuba led the world in sugar manufacture and technological innovation was central to this. Through the story of a group of forgotten migrant workers who anonymously contributed to Cuba's development, this book explores the development of the Cuban sugar industry and how the country became bound into global networks.

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Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions

Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions

Oil Palm

Oil Palm

Cotton and Race Across the Atlantic

Cotton and Race Across the Atlantic

Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions

Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions

Cuban Sugar Industry

Cuban Sugar Industry

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