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The Oxford Handbook of Commodity History features contributions from scholars involved in the field's development across a range of countries and linguistic regions. Each of the handbook's thirty-one chapters focuses on an important theme within commodity history: essential approaches, global histories, modes of production, people and land, environmental impact, consumption, and new methodologies.
List of contents
- The Oxford Handbook of Commodity History
- Introduction, by Jonathan Curry-Machado and Jean Stubbs
- Part I: Approaches
- 1. 'Commodity Chains: Analytical Advantages and Challenges Applied to Coffee'
- Paul S. Ciccantell, David A. Smith, and Steven C. Topik
- 2. 'Approches Filières and Commodity Chains: Comparative Approaches in the Study of Cocoa'
- François Ruf, Franziska Ollendorf, and Enrique Uribe Leitz
- 3. 'Anti-Commodities Revisited: Food, Culture, and Resistance'
- Sandip Hazareesingh and Harro Maat
- 4. 'Commodity Frontiers: Linking Global Commodities and Local Resilience'
- Ulbe Bosma and Eric Vanhaute
- Part II: Global Histories
- 5. 'Early Modern Commodity Routes: Ottoman Silks in the Webs of World Trade'
- Suraiya Faroqhi
- 6. 'Port Cities and Commodities: Luanda in the Early Modern Period'
- Cátia Antunes and Jelmer Vos
- 7. 'Commodities Shaping a New Imperial History: Tobacco and the Iberian Empires'
- Santiago de Luxán Meléndez, João Figueirôa-Rêgo, Vicente Sanz Rozalén, and Jean Stubbs
- 8. 'Futures Trading and German Agricultural Markets'
- Alexander Engel
- 9. 'Commodities Across the Socialist World'
- Anne Dietrich
- Part III: Methods of Production
- 10. 'Mining Frontiers and the Making of the Modern World'
- Leonardo Marques
- 11. 'Towards a Technological History of Global Commodities'
- David Pretel
- 12. 'Plantations and Commodities: Indigo in Colonial India'
- Ghulam A. Nadri
- 13. 'Primary Commodities and Industrial Consumers: The Case of Palm Oil'
- Jonathan E. Robins
- Part IV: People and Land
- 14. 'Migration, Slavery, and Commodification'
- Michael Zeuske
- 15. 'Labour as a Commodity: The Case of Rough Diamond Mining'
- Karin Hofmeester
- 16. 'Land-Rights Commodification: Communal Land Control and Rural Conflict in Bolivia'
- Hanne Cottyn
- 17. 'Circuits of Knowledge of Tropical Commodities'
- Leida Fernández-Prieto
- Part V: Environments
- 18. 'Territorial Mapping and the Formation of Frontier Zones: The Trucial States (1930s-1950s)'
- Sabrina Joseph
- 19. 'Land Use and Commodities: Amazonian Cocoa Production'
- Rafael Chambouleyron, Luly Fischer, and Karl Heinz Arenz
- 20. 'Commodities, Trade, and Ecological Transformation in the Modern World'
- Corey Ross
- 21. 'Commodities, Carbon, and Climate'
- John L. Brooke, Eric Herschthal, and Jed Kaplan
- Part VI: Commodities and Consumption
- 22. 'Animals as Commodities: The Case of the Pacific Fur Seal'
- Helen Cowie
- 23. 'Producing Drug Histories: Conquest and Commerce, Culture and Control'
- Joyce A. Madancy
- 24. 'Culinary Commodities: Global Foods, People, and Cuisines'
- Elizabeth Zanoni
- 25. 'Historical Archaeologies of Commodities: Race and Consumer Culture in the United States'
- Paul R. Mullins
- Part VI: Methodologies
- 26. 'Seeing Things: The Visual Life of Commodities'
- Anna Arabindan-Kesson
- 27. 'Computational Methods for the History of Commodities as Illustrated by Apple Pie Recipes'
- Marieke van Erp and Ulbe Bosma
- 28. 'Mapping Commodity Histories: Historical GIS and Canadian Forest Products'
- Jim Clifford, Joshua MacFadyen, and Stéphane Castonguay
- 29. 'Commodities, Interdisciplinarity, and Historical GIS: Early Modern Maritime Routes and Timber Supply'
- Ana Crespo Solana
- Conclusion, by William Gervase Clarence-Smith and Jelmer Vos
- Index
About the author
Jonathan Curry-Machado is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London; Jean Stubbs is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London; William Gervase Clarence-Smith is an Emeritus Professor of History at SOAS University of London; Dr Jelmer Vos is a Lecturer in Global History at the University of Glasgow
Summary
The Oxford Handbook of Commodity History features contributions from scholars involved in the field's development across a range of countries and linguistic regions. Each of the handbook's thirty-one chapters focuses on an important theme within commodity history: essential approaches, global histories, modes of production, people and land, environmental impact, consumption, and new methodologies.
