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From silver to cocaine : Latin American commodity chains and the building of the world economy, 1500-2000 / edited by Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank.
Lippincott Library HF1040.9.L37 F76 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- American encounters/global interactions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Primary commodities--Latin America.
- Primary commodities.
- Exports.
- History.
- Commerce.
- Latin America--Commerce--History.
- Latin America.
- Exports--Latin America--History.
- Physical Description:
- 377 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Commodity Chains in Theory and in Latin American History / Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, Zephyr Frank 1
- 1 The Spanish-American Silver Peso: Export Commodity and Global Money of the Ancien Regime, 1550-1800 / Carlos Marichal 25
- 2 Indigo Commodity Chains in the Spanish and British Empires, 1560-1860 / David McCreery 53
- 3 Mexican Cochineal and the European Demand for American Dyes, 1550-1850 / Carlos Marichal 76
- 4 Colonial Tobacco: Key Commodity of the Spanish Empire, 1500-1800 / Laura Nater 93
- 5 The Latin American Coffee Commodity Chain: Brazil and Costa Rica / Steven Topik, Mario Samper 118
- 6 Trade Regimes and the International Sugar Market, 1850-1980: Protectionism, Subsidies, and Regulation / Horacio Crespo 147
- 7 The Local and the Global: Internal and External Factors in the Development of Bahia's Cacao Sector / Mary Ann Mahony 174
- 8 Banana Boats and Baby Food: The Banana in U.S. History / Marcelo Bucheli, Ian Read 204
- 9 The Fertilizer Commodity Chains: Guano and Nitrate, 1840-1930 / Rory Miller, Robert Greenhill 228
- 10 Brazil in the International Rubber Trade, 1870-1930 / Zephyr Frank, Aldo Musacchio 271
- 11 Reports of Its Demise Are Not Exaggerated: The Life and Times of Yucatecan Henequen / Allen Wells 300
- 12 Cocaine in Chains: The Rise and Demise of a Global Commodity, 1860-1950 / Paul Gootenberg 321
- Conclusion: Commodity Chains and Globalization in Historical Perspective / Carlos Marichal, Steven Topik, Zephyr Frank 352.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0822337533
- 0822337665
- OCLC:
- 64427321
- Publisher Number:
- 9780822337669 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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