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Plantation Crops, Plunder and Power - Evolution and exploitation (Hardcover)
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Plantation Crops, Plunder and Power - Evolution and exploitation (Hardcover)
Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture
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Over the last five centuries, plantation crops have represented the
best and worst of industrialized agriculture - "best" through their
agronomic productivity and global commercial success, and "worst"
as examples of exploitative colonialism, conflict and ill-treatment
of workers. This book traces the social, political and evolutionary
history of seven major plantation crops - sugarcane, banana,
cotton, tea, tobacco, coffee and rubber. It describes how all of
these were domesticated in antiquity and grown by small landowners
for thousands of years before European traders and colonists sought
to make a profit out of them. The author relates how their
development and spread were closely associated with government
expansionist policies. They stimulated the exploration of far off
lands, were the focus of major conflicts and led to the enslavement
of both native and displaced peoples. From the southern United
States, Latin America and the Caribbean, to Asia and Africa,
plantation crops turned social structures upside down leading to
revolution and government change. The economies of whole countries
became tied to the profits of these plantations, leading to
internal power struggles to control the burgeoning wealth. Open
warfare routinely broke out between the more powerful countries and
factions for trade dominance. This book shows that from the early
1500s to today, at least one of the plantation crops was always at
the center of world politics, and that this still continues today,
for example with the development of oil palm plantations in
Southeast Asia. Written in an accessible style, it is fascinating
supplementary reading for students of agricultural, environmental
and colonial history.
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