Commodity Frontiers and Global Capitalist Expansion

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.

• 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.