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Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures : Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History / edited by Harro Maat, Sandip Hazareesingh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hazareesingh, Sandip, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, 2635-1641
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imperialism.
- Ecology.
- World history.
- Asia--History.
- Asia.
- Africa--History.
- Africa.
- Southeast Asia--History.
- Southeast Asia.
- Imperialism and Colonialism.
- Environmental Sciences.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- History of South Asia.
- African History.
- History of Southeast Asia.
- Local Subjects:
- Imperialism and Colonialism.
- Environmental Sciences.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- History of South Asia.
- African History.
- History of Southeast Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2016.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The book brings together original, state-of-the-art historical research from several continents and examines how mainly local peasant societies responded to colonial pressures to produce a range of different commodities. It offers new directions in the study of African, Asian, Caribbean, and Latin American societies.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Rice as Commodity and Anti-Commodity; 2 Yellow Tobacco, Black Tobacco: Indigenous (desi) Tobacco as an Anti-Commodity; 3 Upland and Lowland Rice in the Netherlands Indies; 4 Anti-Commodity Counterpoint: Smallholder Diversity and Rural Development on the Cuban Sugar Frontier; 5 'Your Foreign Plants Are Very Delicate': Peasant Crop Ecologies and the Subversion of Colonial Cotton Designs in Dharwar, Western India, 1830-1880
- 6 Sanitising Commercialisation: Health and the Politics of 'Waste' in Colonial Punjab7 East African Railways and Harbours, 1945-1960: From 'Crisis of Accumulation' to Labour Resistance; 8 Rice, Civilisation and the Swahili Towns: Anti-Commodity and Anti-State?; 9 'Shun the White Man's Crop': Shangwe Grievances, Religious Leaders and Cotton Cultivation in North-Western Zimbabwe; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137381101
- 1137381108
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