Demonstrating that globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon,
From Silver to Cocaine examines the commodity chains that have
connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the
world for five hundred years. In clear, accessible essays,
historians from Latin America, England, and the United States trace
the paths of many of Latin America's most important exports:
coffee, bananas, rubber, sugar, tobacco, silver, henequen (fiber),
fertilizers, cacao, cocaine, indigo, and cochineal (insects used to
make dye). Each contributor follows a specific commodity from its
inception, through its development and transport, to its final
destination in the hands of consumers. The essays are arranged in
chronological order, according to when the production of a
particular commodity became significant to Latin America's economy.
Some-such as silver, sugar, and tobacco-were actively produced and
traded in the sixteenth century; others-such as bananas and
rubber-only at the end of the nineteenth century; and cocaine only
in the twentieth.By focusing on changing patterns of production and
consumption over time, the contributors reconstruct complex webs of
relationships and economic processes, highlighting Latin America's
central and interactive place in the world economy. They show how
changes in coffee consumption habits, clothing fashions, drug
usage, or tire technologies in Europe, Asia, and the Americas
reverberate through Latin American commodity chains in profound
ways. The social and economic outcomes of the continent's export
experience have been mixed. By analyzing the dynamics of a wide
range of commodities over a five-hundred-year period, From Silver
to Cocaine highlights this diversity at the same time that it
provides a basis for comparison and points to new ways of doing
global history. Contributors. Marcelo Bucheli, Horacio Crespo,
Zephyr Frank, Paul Gootenberg, Robert Greenhill, Mary Ann Mahony,
Carlos Marichal, David McCreery, Rory Miller, Aldo Musacchio, Laura
Nater, Ian Read, Mario Samper, Steven Topik, Allen Wells
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