| Description |
377 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
American encounters/global interactions
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American encounters/global interactions.
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| Bibliography |
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 |
| Subject |
Primary commodities -- Latin America.
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Primary commodities. |
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Latin America. |
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Latin America -- Commerce -- History.
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Commerce. |
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History. |
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Exports -- Latin America -- History.
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Exports. |
| Added Author |
Topik, Steven.
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Marichal, Carlos.
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Frank, Zephyr L., 1970-
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| ISBN |
0822337533 cloth alkaline paper |
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0822337665 paperback alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
9780822337669 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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