Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures : Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History /: Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sandip Hazareesingh, Harro Maat.
• Editors: Hazareesingh, Sandip; Maat, Harro
• 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
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (232 pages)
• Subjects: Asia/Southeast Asia; Africa/General; Commodities; The environment; Colonialism & imperialism; Social & cultural history
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137381118; 1137381116
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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