A Local History of Global Capital : Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta /

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Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed fiber in the world, after cotton. While...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ali, Tariq Omar (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Jute industry.
Economic history.
Commodity exchanges.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Trade & Tariffs.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Marketing.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Exports & Imports.
commodity exchanges.
Bourses de marchandises.
Jute industry > Bengal Basin > History.
Ganges-Brahmaputra-Mündungsdelta.
India > Bengal Basin.
Bengal Basin > Social conditions > History.
Bengal Basin > Economic conditions > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Maps; Introduction; 1 Cultivating Jute: Peasant Choice, Labor, and Hunger; 2 Consumption and Self-Fashioning: The Politics of Peasant Consumerism; 3 The Spaces of Jute: Metropolis, Hinterland, and Mofussil; 4 Immiseration; 5 Agrarian Forms of Islam: The Politics of Peasant Immiseration; 6 Peasant Populism: Electoral Politics and the â#x80;#x9C;Rural Muhammadanâ#x80;#x9D;; 7 Pakistan and Partition: Peasant Utopia and Disillusion; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Index.

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