Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions
Published on 1. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIV, 286 pages
978-1-349-44898-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XIV, 286 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
385 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-44898-2 (9781349448982)
DOI
10.1057/9781137283603
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Jonathan Curry-Machado
Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions
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07/2013
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
Vibha Arora, Associate Professor, the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
William Gervase Clarence-Smith, Professor, the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
Steve Cushion, Secretary, the University and Colleges Union (UCU), UK
Teresita A. Levy, Assistant Professor, Lehman College, City University of New York, USA
Patrick Neveling, Researcher, Historical Institute of the University of Berne, Switzerland
Kaori O'Connor, Senior Research Fellow, University College London (UCL), UK
Alan Pryor, Doctorate, University of Essex, UK
Jonathan Robins, Assistant Professor, Michigan Technological University, USA
Jean Stubbs, Professor Emerita, London Metropolitan University, UK
Miguel Suárez Bosa, Professor, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)
Jelmer Vos, Assistant Professor, Old Dominion University, USA
Content
List of Figures Preface and Acknowledgements Contributors Global Commodities, Local Interactions: An Introduction; Jonathan Curry-Machado 1. Routeing the Commodities of the Empire through Sikkim (1817-1906); Vibha Arora 2. Indian Pale Ale: an Icon of Empire; Alan Pryor 3. The Control of Port Services by International Companies in the Macaronesian Islands (1850-1914); Miguel Suárez Bosa 4. Of Stocks and Barter: John Holt and the Kongo Rubber Trade, 1906-1910; Jelmer Vos 5. Coercion and Resistance in the Colonial Market: Cotton in Britain's African Empire; Jonathan E. Robins 6. A Periodisation of Globalisation According to the Mauritian Integration into the International Sugar Commodity Chain (1825-2005); Patrick Neveling 7. In Cane's Shadow: Commodity Plantations and the Local Agrarian Economy on Cuba's Mid-nineteenth Century Sugar Frontier; Jonathan Curry-Machado 8. Cuban Popular Resistance to the 1953 London Sugar Agreement; Steve Cushion 9. Tobacco Growers, Resistance and Accommodation to American Domination in Puerto Rico, 1899-1940; Teresita A. Levy 10. The Battle for Rubber in the Second World War: Cooperation and Resistance; William G. Clarence-Smith 11. Beyond 'Exotic Groceries': Tapioca-Cassava-Manioc, a Hidden Commodity of Empires and Globalisation; Kaori O'Connor 12. El Habano: The Global Luxury Smoke; Jean Stubbs