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From silver to cocaine : Latin American commodity chains and the building of the world economy, 1500-2000

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From silver to cocaine : Latin American commodity chains and the building of the world economy, 1500-2000 / edited by Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank.
Publication
Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Topik, Steven.
  • Marichal, Carlos.
  • Frank, Zephyr L., 1970-
Description
377 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
Series Statement
American encounters/global interactions
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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
Call Number
JBE 06-1446
ISBN
  • 0822337533 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0822337665 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2006004882
  • 9780822337669
OCLC
64427321
Title
From silver to cocaine : Latin American commodity chains and the building of the world economy, 1500-2000 / edited by Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank.
Imprint
Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2006.
Series
American encounters/global interactions
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Topik, Steven.
Marichal, Carlos.
Frank, Zephyr L., 1970-
Other Standard Identifier
9780822337669 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Research Call Number
JBE 06-1446
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