Tea Environments and Plantation Culture - Imperial Disarray in Eastern India

Rethinks the tea plantation economy of colonial east India by highlighting its human and non-human networks and practices.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Planting empires; 2. Agriculture or manufacture?; 3. Bugs in the garden; 4. Death in the fields; 5. Conservation or commerce?; 6. Plant and politics; Conclusion.

About the author

Arnab Dey is Assistant Professor of Modern Indian History at the State University of New York at Binghamton. His research interests span the fields of labor, political economy, law, and environmental history. He has held fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Nicholson Center for British Studies at the University of Chicago, and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich.

Summary

This book showcases the history of commodity production in the British Empire and its impact on the natural and human worlds. Focused on the tea plantation economy of east India, it highlights the ecological consequences, legal workings, and labor conditions of this early form of global capital and monopoly trade.

Product details

• Authors: Arnab Dey, Arnab (State University of New York Dey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781108471305
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47130-5
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, English, India, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, The environment, Economic history, c 1500 onwards to present day, Asian History, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Asia / South / General