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From silver to cocaine : Latin American commodity chains and the building of the world economy, 1500-2000
- 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.
- Publication
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2006.
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- Additional Authors
- 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.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Topik, Steven.Marichal, Carlos.Frank, Zephyr L., 1970-
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780822337669 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Research Call Number
- JBE 06-1446