Extent:
377 S.
graph. Darst., Kt.
24 cm
Series:
Type of publication: Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories): Aufsatzsammlung ; Sammelwerk ; Collection of articles of several authors
Language: English
Notes:
Literaturangaben. - Enth. 12 Beitr.
Introduction : Commodity chains in theory and in Latin American history -- 1. The Spanish-American silver peso : export commodity and global money of the ancien regime, 1550-1800 -- 2. Indigo commodity chains in the Spanish and British empires, 1560-1860 -- 3. Mexican Cochineal and the European demand for American dyes, 1550-1850 -- 4. Colonial tobacco : key commodity of the Spanish empire, 1500-1800 -- 5. The Latin American coffee commodity chain : Brazil and Costa Rica -- 6. Trade regimes and the international sugar market, 1850-1980 : protectionism, subsidies, and regulation -- 7. The local and the global : internal and external factors in the development of Bahia's cacao sector -- 8. Banana boats and the baby food : the banana in U.S. history -- 9. The fertilizer commodity chains : Guano and nitrate, 1840-1930 -- 10. Brazil in the international rubber trade, 1870-1930 -- 11. Reports of its demise are not exaggerated : the life and times of Yucatecan Henequen -- 12. Cocaine in chains : the rise and demise of a global community commodity, 1860-1950 -- Conclusion : Commodity chains and globalization in historical perspective
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ISBN: 0-8223-3753-3 ; 0-8223-3766-5
Classification: Mittelamerika, Südamerika ; Außenwirtschaft: Allgemeines
Source:
ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003283372