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Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures

Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Sandip Hazareesingh

    1. The Open University, UK

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  2. Harro Maat

    1. Wageningen University, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Sandip Hazareesingh, Harro Maat
    Pages 1-9

  3. Rice as Commodity and Anti-Commodity

    • Paul Richards
    Pages 10-28

  4. Yellow Tobacco, Black Tobacco: Indigenous (desi) Tobacco as an Anti-Commodity

    • Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff
    Pages 29-48

  5. Upland and Lowland Rice in the Netherlands Indies

    • Harro Maat
    Pages 49-69

  6. Anti-Commodity Counterpoint: Smallholder Diversity and Rural Development on the Cuban Sugar Frontier

    • Jonathan Curry-Machado
    Pages 70-96

  7. ‘Your Foreign Plants Are Very Delicate’: Peasant Crop Ecologies and the Subversion of Colonial Cotton Designs in Dharwar, Western India, 1830–1880

    • Sandip Hazareesingh
    Pages 97-124

  8. Sanitising Commercialisation: Health and the Politics of ‘Waste’ in Colonial Punjab

    • Lauren Minsky
    Pages 125-146

  9. East African Railways and Harbours, 1945–1960: From ‘Crisis of Accumulation’ to Labour Resistance

    • David Hyde
    Pages 147-169

  10. Rice, Civilisation and the Swahili Towns: Anti-Commodity and Anti-State?

    • Erik Gilbert
    Pages 170-186

  11. ‘Shun the White Man’s Crop’: Shangwe Grievances, Religious Leaders and Cotton Cultivation in North-Western Zimbabwe

    • Simeon Maravanyika
    Pages 187-209

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 210-213
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About this book

The book brings together original, state-of-the-art historical research from several continents and examines how mainly local peasant societies responded to colonial pressures to produce a range of different commodities. It offers new directions in the study of African, Asian, Caribbean, and Latin American societies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Open University, UK

    Sandip Hazareesingh

  • Wageningen University, The Netherlands

    Harro Maat

About the editors

Sandip Hazareesingh is Research Fellow in the History Department at the Open University, UK. He is the author of The Colonial City and the Challenge of Modernity (2007), and is currently researching the interactions between peasant livelihoods, colonial policies, climate and environment in nineteenth and twentieth century western India.

Harro Maat is Sociologist and Historian of Agricultural Science and Technology at the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation group of Wageningen University, Netherlands. His main focus is on crop improvement in the colonial period and current (bio)technologies for international development in India, South-East Asia and Africa.

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