Title Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures : Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History / edited by Sandip Hazareesingh, Harro Maat

Published London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (223 pages) : online resource Series Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series. 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Africa -- History Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Asia -- History Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- West Indies -- History Produce trade -- Africa -- History Produce trade -- Asia -- History Produce trade -- Caribbean Area -- History History. World history. Imperialism. Social history. Ecology. history (discipline) social history. African colonies Agriculture -- Economic aspects Asian colonies Colonies -- Administration History Imperialism Management Produce trade Social history World history SUBJECT Africa -- Colonies -- Administration -- History Asia -- Colonies -- Administration -- History Caribbean Area -- Colonies -- Administration -- History Asia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008618 Southeast Asia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008630 Subject Africa Asia Caribbean Area Southeast Asia West Indies Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Hazareesingh, Sandip, editor Maat, Harro, editor ISBN 9781137381101 1137381108 9781349565290 1349565296

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