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

About the author

Tariq Omar Ali

Summary

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

Foreword

How jute shaped peasant lives in Northeast India from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century

Additional text

"Shortlisted for the ICAS Book Prize in Social Sciences, International Convention of Asia Scholars"

Product details

• Authors: Tariq Omar Ali
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780691202570
• ISBN: 978-0-691-20257-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Histories of Economic Life; Histories of Economic Life, 5
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; 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