Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures : Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History

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

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Year of publication:	2015
Authors:	Hazareesingh, Sandip
Other Persons:	Maat, Harro (contributor)
Publisher:	Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
Subject:	Kolonialismus \| Colonialism \| Welt \| World \| Wirtschaftsgeschichte \| Economic history \| Globalisierung \| Globalization \| Geschichte \| History
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (226 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; 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
ISBN:	978-1-137-38109-5 ; 978-1-137-38110-1 ; 978-1-137-38109-5
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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