agrarian social change
Agriculture
Batavia
Betel Nut
Cane Cultivation
Cane Varieties
Capitalism
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cigarette
Cigarette Tobacco
Civilization
Coffee
Colonial Administration
colonial commodity production
colonial era agricultural systems
Colonization
Colony
cuban
Cuban Cane
Cuban Sugar Industry
Cuban Varieties
Disease
East Indies
Environment
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European Planters
Excise Duty
factory
globalisation agriculture history
Governance
historical microanalysis
Independence
Indian Smallholders
Indian Tobacco
Indies
Indigo
Indigo Factories
Indigo Manager
Indigo Production
Industrialization
Javanese Society
Justice
Max Havelaar
Mughal
plantation economies
primary source research methods
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Settlement
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Sugar Factories
Sugar Industry
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Tobacco Cultivation
Tobacco Experimentation
Tobacco Variety
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- ISBN 9781472461865
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 23 Jun 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Over the past 500 years westerners have turned into avid consumers of colonial products and various production systems in the Americas, Africa and Asia have adapted to serve the new markets that opened up in the wake of the "European encounter". The effects of these transformations for the long-term development of these societies are fiercely contested. How can we use historical source material to pinpoint this social change? This volume presents six different examples from countries in which commodities were embedded in existing production systems - tobacco, coffee, sugar and indigo in Indonesia, India and Cuba - to shed light on this key process in human history. To demonstrate the effectiveness of using different types of source material, each contributor presents a micro-study based on a different type of historical source: a diary, a petition, a "mail report", a review, a scientific study and a survey. As a result, the volume offers insights into how historians use their source material to construct narratives about the past and offers introductions to trajectories of agricultural commodity production, as well as much new information about the social struggles surrounding them.
Willem van Schendel has served as Professor of Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam and as head of the South Asia Department, International Institute of Social History. Among his recent books are The Camera as Witness: A Social History of Mizoram, Northeast India (with Joy Pachuau); A History of Bangladesh and Global Blue: Indigo and Espionage in Colonial Bengal. Recent co-edited volumes are Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia: Critical Perspectives and The Bangladesh Reader: History, Culture, Politics.
