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Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Tables; Note on the Text; Introduction; 1. Historical Setting; 2. Minerals, the Subsoil and Property Law; 3. Iron and Gold in Pre-Industrial Brazil; 4. The Subsoil as Private Property; 5. Industrializing Iron Ore; 6. Minerals and the Formation of Economic...

Examining the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for 500 years, this work follows a specific commodity from its inception, through its development and transport, to its final destination in the hands of consumers

"In the past thirty years, China has transformed from an impoverished country where peasants comprised the largest portion of the populace, to an economic power with an expanding middle class and more megacities than anywhere else on earth. Like every other major power in modern history, China...