Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions [electronic resource] /
Curry-Machado, Jonathan.author.
Curry-Machado, Jonathan,author,editor of compilation.
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- 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 Suarez 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.
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.
Social history.
World history.
Imperialism.
Asia—History.
America—History.
Africa—History.
Social History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Asian History.
History of the Americas.
African History.