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From silver to cocaine : Latin American commodity chains and the building of the world economy, 1500-2000 /
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Durham, N.C. ; London :
Duke University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | American encounters/global interactions
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Commodity chains in theory and in Latin American history
- 1. The Spanish-American silver peso : export commodity and global money of the ancien regime, 1550-1800
- 2. Indigo commodity chains in the Spanish and British empires, 1560-1860
- 3. Mexican Cochineal and the European demand for American dyes, 1550-1850
- 4. Colonial tobacco : key commodity of the Spanish empire, 1500-1800
- 5. The Latin American coffee commodity chain : Brazil and Costa Rica
- 6. Trade regimes and the international sugar market, 1850-1980 : protectionism, subsidies, and regulation
- 7. The local and the global : internal and external factors in the development of Bahia's cacao sector
- 8. Banana boats and baby food : the banana in U.S. history
- 9. The fertilizer commodity chains : guano and nitrate, 1840-1930
- 10. Brazil in the international rubber trade, 1870-1930
- 11. Reports of its demise are not exaggerated : the life and times of Yucatecan henequen
- 12. Cocaine in chains : the rise and demise of a global commodity, 1860-1950
- Conclusion : Commodity chains and globalization in historical perspective.