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Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures : Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial StudiesPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (225 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137381101
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Local Subversions of Colonial CulturesLOC classification:
  • JV61-152
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Rice as Commodity and Anti-Commodity -- 2 Yellow Tobacco, Black Tobacco: Indigenous (desi) Tobacco as an Anti-Commodity -- 3 Upland and Lowland Rice in the Netherlands Indies -- 4 Anti-Commodity Counterpoint: Smallholder Diversity and Rural Development on the Cuban Sugar Frontier -- 5 'Your Foreign Plants Are Very Delicate': Peasant Crop Ecologies and the Subversion of Colonial Cotton Designs in Dharwar, Western India, 1830-1880 -- 6 Sanitising Commercialisation: Health and the Politics of 'Waste' in Colonial Punjab -- 7 East African Railways and Harbours, 1945-1960: From 'Crisis of Accumulation' to Labour Resistance -- 8 Rice, Civilisation and the Swahili Towns: Anti-Commodity and Anti-State? -- 9 'Shun the White Man's Crop': Shangwe Grievances, Religious Leaders and Cotton Cultivation in North-Western Zimbabwe -- Index.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Rice as Commodity and Anti-Commodity -- 2 Yellow Tobacco, Black Tobacco: Indigenous (desi) Tobacco as an Anti-Commodity -- 3 Upland and Lowland Rice in the Netherlands Indies -- 4 Anti-Commodity Counterpoint: Smallholder Diversity and Rural Development on the Cuban Sugar Frontier -- 5 'Your Foreign Plants Are Very Delicate': Peasant Crop Ecologies and the Subversion of Colonial Cotton Designs in Dharwar, Western India, 1830-1880 -- 6 Sanitising Commercialisation: Health and the Politics of 'Waste' in Colonial Punjab -- 7 East African Railways and Harbours, 1945-1960: From 'Crisis of Accumulation' to Labour Resistance -- 8 Rice, Civilisation and the Swahili Towns: Anti-Commodity and Anti-State? -- 9 'Shun the White Man's Crop': Shangwe Grievances, Religious Leaders and Cotton Cultivation in North-Western Zimbabwe -- Index.

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