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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 A...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hazareesingh, Sandip (Editor ), Maat, Harro (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Colección:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.