Local subversions of colonial cultures : commodities and anti-commodities in global history
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Local subversions of colonial cultures : commodities and anti-commodities in global history
（Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series / general editor, A.G. Hopkins）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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 Punjab 7. East African Railways and Harbours 1945-60: 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
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