Commodity Frontiers and Global Capitalist Expansion

Social, Ecological and Political Implications from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day

AvSabrina Joseph

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Del i serien Palgrave Studies in Economic History

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Beskrivning

This interdisciplinary edited collection explores the dynamics of global capitalist expansion through the concept of the ‘commodity frontier’.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-07-03
Mått:148 x 210 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Economic History
Antal sidor:292
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030153212

Utforska kategorier

Ekonomisk historia inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Sabrina Joseph is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at the American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Her research interests are in the field of Middle Eastern and Ottoman history, encompassing work on land use, environmental management, women and inter-faith relations during the early modern and modern periods.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Introduction; Sabrina Joseph.- Chapter 2: Making Cheap Nature on High Altitude: A World-Ecological Perspective on Commodification, Communities, and Conflict in the Andes; Hanne Cottyn.- Chapter 3: Agricultural Commodities on the Philippine Frontier: State-Sponsored Resettlement and Ecological Distress in the 1930s; Karen Miller.- Chapter 4: Gendering Farmer Producer Companies at the Agricultural Frontier of India: Empowerment or Burden?; Indrakshi Tandon.- Chapter 5: Ecosystems as Commodity Frontiers: Challenges faced by land set aside as Protected Areas (PAs) in the Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates (UAE); Brigitte Howarth, Tamer Khafaga, Greg Simkins, and Sabrina Joseph.- Chapter 6: From the Amazon to the Congo Valley: A Comparative Study on the Violent Commodification of Labour during the Rubber Boom (1870s-1910s); : Louise Cardoso de Mello and Sven Van Melkebeke.- Chapter 7: Chilean Expansion and Southern South America’s Integration into theModern Capitalist System, 1879-1931; James Lockhart.- Chapter 8: Red Fever: Natural Resource Companies and the Global Copper Mining Frontier 1890-1939; Robrecht Declercq.- Chapter 9: A Toxic Development: Pollution and Change in an Amazonian Oil Frontier; Deborah Delgado Pugley.- Chapter 10: Conclusion; Sabrina Joseph.