Autorentext

Jonathan Curry-Machado is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London; Jean Stubbs is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London; William Gervase Clarence-Smith is an Emeritus Professor of History at SOAS University of London; Dr Jelmer Vos is a Lecturer in Global History at the University of Glasgow

Klappentext

Commodities provide a lens through which local and global histories can be understood and written. The study of commodity history follows these goods as they make their way from land and water through processing and trade to eventual consumption. It is a fast-developing field with collaborative, comparative, and interdisciplinary research, and with new information technologies becoming increasingly important. Although many individual researchers continue to focus on particular commodities and regions, they often do so in partnership with others working on different areas and employing a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, placing commodities history at the forefront of local and global historical analysis.

This Oxford Handbook features contributions from scholars involved in these developments across a range of countries and linguistic regions. They discuss the state of the art in their fields, draw on their own work, and signal lacunae for future research. Each of the volume's thirty-one chapters focuses on an important thematic area within commodities history: essential approaches, global histories, modes of production, people and land, environmental impact, consumption, and new methodologies. The Oxford Handbook of Commodity History offers insight into the directions in which commodity history is heading, and the multiple ways in which it can contribute to a better understanding of the world.

Zusammenfassung
The Oxford Handbook of Commodity History features contributions from scholars involved in the field's development across a range of countries and linguistic regions. Each of the handbook's thirty-one chapters focuses on an important theme within commodity history: essential approaches, global histories, modes of production, people and land, environmental impact, consumption, and new methodologies.

Inhalt

• The Oxford Handbook of Commodity History

• Introduction, by Jonathan Curry-Machado and Jean Stubbs

• Part I: Approaches

• 1. 'Commodity Chains: Analytical Advantages and Challenges Applied to Coffee'

• Paul S. Ciccantell, David A. Smith, and Steven C. Topik

• 2. 'Approches Filières and Commodity Chains: Comparative Approaches in the Study of Cocoa'

• François Ruf, Franziska Ollendorf, and Enrique Uribe Leitz

• 3. 'Anti-Commodities Revisited: Food, Culture, and Resistance'

• Sandip Hazareesingh and Harro Maat

• 4. 'Commodity Frontiers: Linking Global Commodities and Local Resilience'

• Ulbe Bosma and Eric Vanhaute

• Part II: Global Histories

• 5. 'Early Modern Commodity Routes: Ottoman Silks in the Webs of World Trade'

• Suraiya Faroqhi

• 6. 'Port Cities and Commodities: Luanda in the Early Modern Period'

• Cátia Antunes and Jelmer Vos

• 7. 'Commodities Shaping a New Imperial History: Tobacco and the Iberian Empires'

• Santiago de Luxán Meléndez, João Figueirôa-Rêgo, Vicente Sanz Rozalén, and Jean Stubbs

• 8. 'Futures Trading and German Agricultural Markets'

• Alexander Engel

• 9. 'Commodities Across the Socialist World'

• Anne Dietrich

• Part III: Methods of Production

• 10. 'Mining Frontiers and the Making of the Modern World'

• Leonardo Marques

• 11. 'Towards a Technological History of Global Commodities'

• David Pretel

• 12. 'Plantations and Commodities: Indigo in Colonial India'

• Ghulam A. Nadri

• 13. 'Primary Commodities and Industrial Consumers: The Case of Palm Oil'

• Jonathan E. Robins

• Part IV: People and Land

• 14. 'Migration, Slavery, and Commodification'

• Michael Zeuske

• 15. 'Labour as a Commodity: The Case of Rough Diamond Mining'

• Karin Hofmeester

• 16. 'Land-Rights Commodification: Communal Land Control and Rural Conflict in Bolivia'

• Hanne Cottyn

• 17. 'Circuits of Knowledge of Tropical Commodities'

• Leida Fernández-Prieto

• Part V: Environments

• 18. 'Territorial Mapping and the Formation of Frontier Zones: The Trucial States (1930s-1950s)'

• Sabrina Joseph

• 19. 'Land Use and Commodities: Amazonian Cocoa Production'

• Rafael Chambouleyron, Luly Fischer, and Karl Heinz Arenz

• 20. 'Commodities, Trade, and Ecological Transformation in the Modern World'

• Corey Ross

• 21. 'Commodities, Carbon, and Climate'

• John L. Brooke, Eric Herschthal, and Jed Kaplan

• Part VI: Commodities and Consumption

• 22. 'Animals as Commodities: The Case of the Pacific Fur Seal'

• Helen Cowie

• 23. 'Producing Drug Histories: Conquest and Commerce, Culture and Control'

• Joyce A. Madancy

• 24. 'Culinary Commodities: Global Foods, People, and Cuisines'

• Elizabeth Zanoni

• 25. 'Historical Archaeologies of Commodities: Race and Consumer Culture in the United States'

• Paul R. Mullins

• Part VI: Methodologies

• 26. 'Seeing Things: The Visual Life of Commodities'

• Anna Arabindan-Kesson

• 27. 'Computational Methods for the History of Commodities as Illustrated by Apple Pie Recipes'

• Marieke van Erp and Ulbe Bosma

• 28. 'Mapping Commodity Histories: Historical GIS and Canadian Forest Products'

• Jim Clifford, Joshua MacFadyen, and Stéphane Castonguay

• 29. 'Commodities, Interdisciplinarity, and Historical GIS: Early Modern Maritime Routes and Timber Supply'

• Ana Crespo Solana

• Conclusion, by William Gervase Clarence-Smith and Jelmer Vos

• Index