Research Catalog

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

• Topik, Steven.
• Marichal, Carlos.
• Frank, Zephyr L., 1970-

Description

377 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Series Statement

American encounters/global interactions

Subject

• Primary commodities > Latin America
• Exports > Latin America > History
• Latin America > Commerce > History

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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Added Author

Topik, Steven.

Marichal, Carlos.

Frank, Zephyr L., 1970-

Other Standard Identifier

9780822337669 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Research Call Number

JBE 06-1446