Embedding Agricultural Commodities: Using historical evidence, 1840s–1940s

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Synopsis
Over the past 500 years westerners have turned into avid consumers of colonial products and various production systems in the Americas, Africa and Asia have adapted to serve the new markets that opened up in the wake of the "European encounter". The effects of these transformations for the long-term development of these societies are fiercely contested. How can we use historical source material to pinpoint this social change?

This volume presents six different examples from countries in which commodities were embedded in existing production systems - tobacco, coffee, sugar and indigo in Indonesia, India and Cuba - to shed light on this key process in human history. To demonstrate the effectiveness of using different types of source material, each contributor presents a micro-study based on a different type of historical source: a diary, a petition, a "mail report", a review, a scientific study and a survey. As a result, the volume offers insights into how historians use their source material to construct narratives about the past and offers introductions to trajectories of agricultural commodity production, as well as much new information about the social struggles surrounding them.

Copyright:
2017

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
194 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317144960
Related ISBNs:
9780815366843, 9781472461865, 9781315579122
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Willem van Schendel; individual chapters, the contributors
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Willem Van Schendel

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