Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures: Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History
Language: English
Published by see below, 2014
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2014 Palgrave hardcover edition. Some marks to cover and edge else good condition. Contents: 1. Rice as Commodity and Anti-Commodity by Paul Richards; 2. Yellow Tobacco, Black Tobacco: Indigenous (desi) Tobacco as an Anti-Commodity by Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff; 3. Upland and Lowland Rice in the Netherlands Indies by Harro Maat; 4. Anti-Commodity Counterpoint: Smallholder Diversity and Rural Development on the Cuban Sugar Frontier by Jonathan Curry-Machado; 5. 'Your Foreign Plants Are Very Delicate': Peasant Crop Ecologies and the Subversion of Colonial Cotton Designs in Dharwar, Western India, 1830-1880 by Sandip Hazareesingh; 6. Sanitising Commercialisation: Health and the Politics of 'Waste' in Colonial Punjab by Lauren Minsky; 7. East African Railways and Harbours, 1945-1960: From 'Crisis of Accumulation' to Labour Resistance by David Hyde; 8. Rice, Civilisation and the Swahili Towns: Anti-Commodity and Anti-State? by Erik Gilbert; 9. 'Shun the White Man's Crop': Shangwe Grievances, Religious Leaders and Cotton Cultivation in North-Western Zimbabwe by Simeon Maravanyika.…
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- Title
- Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures: Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History
- Author
- Paul Richards, Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff, Harro Maat, Jonathan Curry-Machado, Sandip Hazareesingh, Lauren Minsky, David Hyde, Erik Gilbert, and Simeon Maravanyika.
- Publisher
- see below
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1137381094
- ISBN 13
- 9781137381095
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About the Author
Harro Maat is Sociologist and Historian of Agricultural Science and Technology at the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation group of Wageningen University, Netherlands. His main focus is on crop improvement in the colonial period and current (bio)technologies for international development in India, South-East Asia and Africa.
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