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Global histories, imperial commodities, local interactions

"The history of the modern world can be described through the history of the commodities that were produced, traded and consumed, on an increasingly global scale. The papers presented in this book show how in this process borders were transgressed, local agents combined with metropolitan repres...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Curry-Machado, Jonathan.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Series:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
Subjects:
Commerce > History > 19th century > Case studies.
Commerce > History > 20th century > Case studies.
Commercial products > History > 19th century > Case studies.
Commercial products > History > 20th century > Case studies.
International trade > History > 19th century > Case studies.
International trade > History > 20th century > Case studies.
Economic history > 19th century > Case studies.
Economic history > 20th century > Case studies.
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Table of Contents:
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  • 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.

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