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Oil Palm - A Global History (Hardcover)
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Oil Palm - A Global History (Hardcover)
Series: Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
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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. First
brought to the global stage in the holds of slave ships, palm oil
became a quintessential commodity in the Industrial Revolution.
Imperialists hungry for cheap fat subjugated Africa's oil palm
landscapes and the people who worked them. In the twentieth
century, the World Bank promulgated oil palm agriculture as a
panacea to rural development in Southeast Asia. As plantation
companies tore into rainforests, evicting farmers in the name of
progress, the oil palm continued its rise to dominance, sparking
new controversies over trade, land and labor rights, human health,
and the environment. 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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