Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions

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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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Curry-Machado, Jonathan
Publisher:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan
Subject:	Welt \| World \| Wirtschaftsgeschichte \| Economic history \| Imperialismus \| Imperialism \| Globalisierung \| Globalization \| Kolonialismus \| Colonialism
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (301 p)
Series:	Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions: An Introduction; 1 Routeing the Commodities of the Empire through Sikkim (1817-1906); 2 Indian Pale Ale: An Icon of Empire; 3 The Control of Port Services by International Companies in the Macaronesian Islands (1850-1914); 4 Of Stocks and Barter: John Holt and the Kongo Rubber Trade, 1906-1910; 5 Coercion and Resistance in the Colonial Market: Cotton in Britain's African Empire 6 A Periodisation of Globalisation According to the Mauritian Integration into the International Sugar Commodity Chain (1825-2005)7 In Cane's Shadow: Commodity Plantations and the Local Agrarian Economy on Cuba's Mid-nineteenth-Century Sugar Frontier; 8 Cuban Popular Resistance to the 1953 London Sugar Agreement; 9 Tobacco Growers, Resistance and Accommodation to American Domination in Puerto Rico, 1899-1940; 10 The Battle for Rubber in the Second World War: Cooperation and Resistance; 11 Beyond 'Exotic Groceries': Tapioca/Cassava/Manioc, a Hidden Commodity of Empires and Globalisation 12 El Habano: The Global Luxury SmokeIndex
ISBN:	978-1-137-28359-7 ; 978-1-137-28360-3 ; 978-1-137-28359-7
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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