Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cotton (Paperback)

Worldwide, plantations are key economic institutions of the modern era. From an environmental perspective, they are also the settings for some of the most powerful, consequential, and frequently destructive modes of production ever to have existed. This volume assembles essays on commodities as diverse as coffee, cotton, rubber, apples, oranges, and tobacco, to provide an overview of plantation systems from Latin America to New Zealand that exposes the many dimensions of environmental history incorporated in these robust institutions. The global history of plantation systems not only highlights the great institutional resilience of our modern monocultures, but also the price that humans and environments have paid for them.

General

Imprint:	Campus Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	November 2014
First published:	August 2014
Authors:	Frank Uek'otter
Dimensions:	142 x 215 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-3-593-50028-7
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Crop husbandry > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	3-593-50028-0
Barcode:	9783593500287

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