Comparing apples, oranges, and cotton : environmental histories of the global plantation / Frank Uekötter (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Uekötter, Frank, 1970- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apple industry.

Orange industry.

Cotton growing.

Plantations--History--Environmental aspects.

Plantations.

Plantations--History--Economic aspects.

History.

Physical Description:

272 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt am Main : Campus Verlag, [2014]

Summary:

Plantations are a key institution of the modern era. From an environmental perspective, they are also one of the most consequential modes of production. This volume assembles articles on commodities as diverse as coffee, cotton, rubber and apples, providing overviews on plantation systems from Latin America to New Zealand while at the same time exploring the multitude of dimensions that the environmental history of plantations incorporates. The global history of plantation systems highlights the enormous resilience of modern monocultures-but also the price that humans and environments were paying. Book jacket.

Contents:

Rise, Fall, and Permanence. Issues in the Environmental History of the Global Plantation / Frank Uekötter Uekötter, Frank 7

Plantations, Agroecology, Environmental Thought, and the American South / Mart A. Stewart Stewart, Mart A. 27

Cotton's Metropolis: Memphis and Plantation Development in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1920 / Jeannie M. Whayne Whayne, Jeannie M. 49

Ephemeral Plantations: The Rise and Fall of Liberian Coffee, 1870-1900 / Stuart McCook McCook, Stuart 85

Between "Wild Tropics" and "Civilization": Guatemalan Coffee Plantations as Seen by German Immigrants / Christiane Berth Berth, Christiane 113

Divide and Cultivate: Plantations, Militarism and Environment in Portuguese Timor, 1860-1975 / Chris Shepherd Shepherd, Chris, Andrew McWilliam McWilliam, Andrew 139

Pines, Pests and Fires: Large Scale Plantation Forestry in New Zealand, 1897-1955 / Michael Roche Roche, Michael 167

How Nature Works: Business, Ecology, and Rubber Plantations in Colonial Southeast Asia, 1919-1939 / Michitake Aso Aso, Michitake 195

Apple Orchards in Southern Brazil: An Environmental History / Jó Klanovicz Klanovicz, Jó 221

Plantations and the Rise of a Society in Sao Tomé and Príncipe / Marina Padrdo Temudo Temudo, Marina Padrdo 239.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3593500280

9783593500287

OCLC:

871670856