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题名/责任者:

Oil palm : a global history / Jonathan E. Robins.

出版发行项:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]

ISBN:

9781469662886

ISBN:

9781469662893

载体形态项:

418 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

丛编说明:

Flows, migrations, and exchanges

丛编统一题名:

Flows, migrations, and exchanges.

个人责任者:

Robins, Jonathan, author.

论题主题:

Palm oil industry-Africa-History.

论题主题:

Palm oil industry-Southeast Asia-History.

论题主题:

Palm oil industry-Political aspects-History.

论题主题:

Oil palm-Industrial applications.

论题主题:

Capitalism.

中图法分类号:

F440.68

中图法分类号:

F433.068

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-406) and index.

内容附注:

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.

摘要附注:

"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"--

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