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Tea war : a history of capitalism in China and India /

Tea remains the world's most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, Andrew B. Liu challenges past economic historie...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Liu, Andrew B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Spellings, Transliterations, and Translations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Two Tea Countries: A Brief History of the Global Tea Trade
  • Part I: Competition and Consciousness: The Chinese and Indian Tea Industries, 1834-1896
  • 2. Incense and Industry: Labor-Intensive Capital Accumulation in the Tea Districts of Huizhou and the Wuyi Mountains
  • 3. A Crisis of Classical Political Economy in Assam: From Economic Liberalism to a Theory of Colonization, 1834-1862
  • 4. After the Great Smash: Tea Mania, Overseas Capital, and Labor Intensifi cation in Assam
  • 5. No Sympathy for the Merchant? The Crisis of Chinese Tea and Classical Political Economy in Late Qing China
  • Part II: Coolies and Compradors: Tea and Political Economy at the Turn of the Century
  • 6. Coolie Nationalism: The Category "Freedom" and Indian Nationalist Campaigns against Labor Indenture
  • 7. From Cohong to Comprador: China's Tea Industry Revolution and the Critique of Unproductive Labor
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J