- Description
- 1 online resource (418 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Summary
- "Oil palms are ubiquitous--grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. And as Jonathan E. Robins shows, sweeping social transformations carried the plant around the planet. By telling the story of the oil palm across multiple centuries and continents, Robins demonstrates how the fruits of an African palm tree became a key commodity in the story of global capitalism, beginning in the eras of slavery and imperialism, persisting through decolonization, and stretching to the present day"--
- Series Statement
- Flows, migrations, and exchanges
- Uniform Title
- Oil palm (Online)
- Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
- Alternative Title
- Oil palm (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-406) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- The oil palm in Africa -- Early encounters across the Atlantic world -- From "legitimate commerce" to the "scramble for Africa" -- Oil palms in the Industrial Revolution -- Machines in the palm groves -- African smallholders under colonial rule -- The plantation complex in southeast Asia -- From colonialism to development -- Industrial frontiers -- The oil palm's new frontiers -- Globalization and the oil palm boom.
- LCCN
- 2020056875
- OCLC
- ssj0002450733
- Author
Robins, Jonathan.
- Title
Oil palm [electronic resource] : a global history / Jonathan E. Robins.
- Imprint
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
- Series
Flows, migrations, and exchanges
Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-406) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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