Tea war
Subtitle: a history of capitalism in China and India
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University; Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780300252330
Subjects: Capitalism; History; Tea trade
Description: A history of capitalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century China and India exploring the competition between their tea industries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Half Title; title: Title; title: Copyright; title: Contents; title: Acknowledgments; title: Note on Spellings, Transliterations, and Translations; title: Introduction; title: 1. The Two Tea Countries: A Brief History of the Global Tea Trade; title: Part I: Competition and Consciousness: The Chinese and Indian Tea Industries, 1834-1896; title: 2. Incense and Industry: Labor-Intensive Capital Accumulation in the Tea Districts of Huizhou and the Wuyi Mountains; title: 3. A Crisis of Classical Political Economy in Assam: From Economic Liberalism to a Theory of Colonization, 1834-1862; title: 4. After the Great Smash: Tea Mania, Overseas Capital, and Labor Intensifi cation in Assam; title: 5. No Sympathy for the Merchant? The Crisis of Chinese Tea and Classical Political Economy in Late Qing China; title: Part II: Coolies and Compradors: Tea and Political Economy at the Turn of the Century; title: 6. Coolie Nationalism: The Category "Freedom" and Indian Nationalist Campaigns against Labor Indenture; title: 7. From Cohong to Comprador: China's Tea Industry Revolution and the Critique of Unproductive Labor; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index; title: A; title: B; title: C; title: D; title: E; title: F; title: G; title: H; title: I; title: J; title: L; title: M; title: N; title: O; title: P; title: Q; title: R; title: S; title: T; title: U; title: V; title: W; title: X; title: Y; title: Z