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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- American encounters/global interactions.
- American encounters/global interactions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Primary commodities--Latin America.
- Primary commodities.
- Exports--Latin America--History.
- Exports.
- Latin America--Commerce--History.
- Latin America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Claims that the history of commodities in Latin America (or anywhere) cannot be understood without considering their global context, often from a long-term perspective.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Commodity chains in theory and in Latin American history
- 1. The Spanish-American silver peso : export commodity and global money of the ancien regime, 1550-1800
- 2. Indigo commodity chains in the Spanish and British empires, 1560-1860
- 3. Mexican Cochineal and the European demand for American dyes, 1550-1850
- 4. Colonial tobacco : key commodity of the Spanish empire, 1500-1800
- 5. The Latin American coffee commodity chain : Brazil and Costa Rica
- 6. Trade regimes and the international sugar market, 1850-1980 : protectionism, subsidies, and regulation
- 7. The local and the global : internal and external factors in the development of Bahia's cacao sector
- 8. Banana boats and the baby food : the banana in U.S. history
- 9. The fertilizer commodity chains : Guano and nitrate, 1840-1930
- 10. Brazil in the international rubber trade, 1870-1930
- 11. Reports of its demise are not exaggerated : the life and times of Yucatecan Henequen
- 12. Cocaine in chains : the rise and demise of a global community commodity, 1860-1950
- Conclusion : Commodity chains and globalization in historical perspective
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822388029
- 0822388022
- OCLC:
- 654662536
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