UID:
almafu_9959677527602883
Umfang:
1 online resource (385 p.)
ISBN:
9780822388029
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0822388022
Serie:
American encounters/global interactions
Inhalt:
Claims that the history of commodities in Latin America (or anywhere) cannot be understood without considering their global context, often from a long-term perspective.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction : Commodity chains in theory and in Latin American history -- 1. The Spanish-American silver peso : export commodity and global money of the ancien regime, 1550-1800 -- 2. Indigo commodity chains in the Spanish and British empires, 1560-1860 -- 3. Mexican Cochineal and the European demand for American dyes, 1550-1850 -- 4. Colonial tobacco : key commodity of the Spanish empire, 1500-1800 -- 5. The Latin American coffee commodity chain : Brazil and Costa Rica -- 6. Trade regimes and the international sugar market, 1850-1980 : protectionism, subsidies, and regulation -- 7. The local and the global : internal and external factors in the development of Bahia's cacao sector -- 8. Banana boats and the baby food : the banana in U.S. history -- 9. The fertilizer commodity chains : Guano and nitrate, 1840-1930 -- 10. Brazil in the international rubber trade, 1870-1930 -- 11. Reports of its demise are not exaggerated : the life and times of Yucatecan Henequen -- 12. Cocaine in chains : the rise and demise of a global community commodity, 1860-1950 -- Conclusion : Commodity chains and globalization in historical perspective
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780822337669
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0822337665
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780822337539
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0822337533
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geographie
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
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DOI:
10.1515/9780822388029
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822388029?locatt=mode:legacy
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