Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures [electronic resource] : Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History /
Hazareesingh, Sandip,author
Maat, Harro.editor.
Hazareesingh, Sandip.editor.
The book brings together original, state-of-the-art historical research from several continents and examines how mainly local peasant societies responded to colonial pressures to produce a range of different commodities. It offers new directions in the study of African, Asian, Caribbean, and Latin American societies.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Rice as Commodity and Anti-Commodity; 2 Yellow Tobacco, Black Tobacco: Indigenous (desi) Tobacco as an Anti-Commodity; 3 Upland and Lowland Rice in the Netherlands Indies; 4 Anti-Commodity Counterpoint: Smallholder Diversity and Rural Development on the Cuban Sugar Frontier; 5 'Your Foreign Plants Are Very Delicate': Peasant Crop Ecologies and the Subversion of Colonial Cotton Designs in Dharwar, Western India, 1830-1880
6 Sanitising Commercialisation: Health and the Politics of 'Waste' in Colonial Punjab7 East African Railways and Harbours, 1945-1960: From 'Crisis of Accumulation' to Labour Resistance; 8 Rice, Civilisation and the Swahili Towns: Anti-Commodity and Anti-State?; 9 'Shun the White Man's Crop': Shangwe Grievances, Religious Leaders and Cotton Cultivation in North-Western Zimbabwe; Index
Includes index.
The book brings together original, state-of-the-art historical research from several continents and examines how mainly local peasant societies responded to colonial pressures to produce a range of different commodities. It offers new directions in the study of African, Asian, Caribbean, and Latin American societies.
Imperialism.
Environment.
World history.
Asia—History.
Africa—History.
Southeast Asia—History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Environment, general.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
History of South Asia.
African History.
History of Southeast Asia.