Local History of Global Capital - Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta

"Shortlisted for the ICAS Book Prize in Social Sciences, International Convention of Asia Scholars" Informationen zum Autor Tariq Omar Ali is assistant professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Klappentext "Ali provides an accessible and highly original study of peasant involvement in jute production and its ramifications for agrarian culture and politics in eastern Bengal. Superbly written and thoroughly researched, A Local History of Global Capital brings a series of fresh insights to the agrarian history of colonial South Asia." --Douglas E. Haynes, author of Small Town Capitalism in Western India: Artisans, Merchants and the Making of the Informal Economy, 1870-1960 "This is a fantastic book. Ali shows how an agrarian society that bears many of the conventional markers of what development theory construes as 'backwardness'--peasant production, overt religiosity, illiteracy--must in fact be understood as squarely located in capitalist modernity." --Andrew Sartori, author of Liberalism in Empire: An Alternative History Zusammenfassung Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed fiber in the world, after cotton. While the sack circulated globally, the plant was cultivated

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• Authors: Tariq Ali, Tariq Omar Ali
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780691170237
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17023-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Histories of Economic Life; Histories of Economic Life
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, South East Asia, Economic history, Social and cultural history, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / General