Plantation Knowledge

Nicholas B. Miller is Associate Professor of History at Flagler College. He is the author of John Millar and the Scottish Enlightenment: Family Life and World History and editor of Cameralism and the Enlightenment: Happiness, Governance and Reform in Transnational Perspective. Ulrike Lindner is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cologne. She is the author of Koloniale Begegnungen: Deutschland und Großbritannien als Imperialmächte in Afrika 1880–1914 and editor of Bonded Labour: Global and Comparative Perspectives (18th–21st Century).

"This volume expands the scope of what might be considered a plantation. Each of the chapters experiments with what it means to label an agricultural or scientific site as a 'plantation' and a space of knowledge production in regions, periods, or labor contexts outside of the slave-based plantation system of the Atlantic region. The global and chronological coverage of the chapters is expansive and offers a valuable contribution to the field of plantation studies." — H-Net Reviews (H-Sci-Med-Tech)"Plantation Knowledge expertly illustrates how plantations around the world have historically functioned not just as engines of wealth creation but also as sites of knowledge production. It also shows how plantations have survived, even thrived, over the past five hundred years precisely because their owners have adapted them to fit changing moral norms around slavery and racism. Indeed, reading this volume one walks away with a much richer understanding of what a 'plantation' is: not a relic of a bygone era of slavery and racism but a dynamic system of labor exploitation and capital accumulation that continues to thrive by adapting to shifting social norms and changing economic environments." — Eric Herschthal, University of Utah

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Plantation Knowledge: Concept, History, and ResearchNicholas B. Miller and Ulrike LindnerPart I: Epistemology1. Between Irish Plantation and the Plantation Complex: The Down Survey (1654–1658), Projecting, and the Origins of Political ArithmeticTed McCormick2. The Badianus Herbal and Forced Indigenous Labor: Art, Land, and Nahua Knowledge in Sixteenth-Century Central MexicoJennifer R. SaracinoPart II: Boundaries3. Sugar and Sovereignty in Hawai'i: John Adams Kuakini Cummins and Waimānalo Plantation, 1878–1895Nicholas B. Miller4. Experimental Paternalism: An Owenite Plantation in Mississippi, 1820–1870Claudia RoeschPart III: Experiments5. Revisiting the Charduar Plantation: Local Connections, Imperial Portfolios, and the Global Pathways of Assam Rubber Moritz von Brescius6. Sugar in Province Wellesley: Converging Streams of Plantation Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century MalayaChristina SkottPart IV: Institutionalization7. Cocoa and Coercion: Connected Histories of Sao Tome and the Belgian CongoMarta Macedo8. Copra and Conquest: Penal Colonies and Botanical Knowledge in the American Colonial PhilippinesTheresa VenturaPart V: Reform9. Cane Farmers Versus Sugar Factories in Post-Emancipation Era Cuba and BrazilGillian McGillivray10. Managing Regulation: Changes of Policy and Continuities of Practice on Indian Tea Plantations, 1901–1931Rebekah McCallumList of ContributorsIndex