Oil Palm : A Global History /

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"Oil palms are ubiquitous--grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. And as Jonathan E. Robins shows, sweeping social transformations ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robins, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Palm oil industry.
Capitalism.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Palmier à huile > Applications industrielles.
Huile de palme > Industrie > Aspect politique > Histoire.
Huile de palme > Industrie > Asie du Sud-Est > Histoire.
Huile de palme > Industrie > Afrique > Histoire.
Oil palm > Industrial applications.
Palm oil industry > Political aspects > History.
Palm oil industry > Southeast Asia > History.
Palm oil industry > Africa > History.
Southeast Asia.
Africa.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The oil palm in Africa
  • Early encounters across the Atlantic world
  • From "legitimate commerce" to the "scramble for Africa"
  • Oil palms in the Industrial Revolution
  • Machines in the palm groves
  • African smallholders under colonial rule
  • The plantation complex in southeast Asia
  • From colonialism to development
  • Industrial frontiers
  • The oil palm's new frontiers
  • Globalization and the oil palm boom.

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