Oil palm : a global history /
Robins, Jonathan,
Oil palm : a global history / Jonathan E. Robins. - 1 volume : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - Flows, migrations, and exchanges. . - Flows, migrations, and exchanges. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The oil palm in Africa -- Early encounters across the Atlantic world -- From "legitimate commerce" to the "scramble for Africa" -- Oil palms in the Industrial Revolution -- Machines in the palm groves -- African smallholders under colonial rule -- The plantation complex in southeast Asia -- From colonialism to development -- Industrial frontiers -- The oil palm's new frontiers -- Globalization and the oil palm boom.
"Oil palms are ubiquitous--grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. And as Jonathan E. Robins shows, sweeping social transformations carried the plant around the planet. By telling the story of the oil palm across multiple centuries and continents, Robins demonstrates how the fruits of an African palm tree became a key commodity in the story of global capitalism, beginning in the eras of slavery and imperialism, persisting through decolonization, and stretching to the present day"--
1469662884 1469662892 9781469662886 9781469662893
2020056875
Capitalism.
Oil palm--Industrial applications.
Palm oil industry--Political aspects--History.
Palm oil industry--History.--Africa
Palm oil industry--History.--Southeast Asia
HD9490.5 .P343 / A357 2021
338.1/73851096
Oil palm : a global history / Jonathan E. Robins. - 1 volume : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - Flows, migrations, and exchanges. . - Flows, migrations, and exchanges. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The oil palm in Africa -- Early encounters across the Atlantic world -- From "legitimate commerce" to the "scramble for Africa" -- Oil palms in the Industrial Revolution -- Machines in the palm groves -- African smallholders under colonial rule -- The plantation complex in southeast Asia -- From colonialism to development -- Industrial frontiers -- The oil palm's new frontiers -- Globalization and the oil palm boom.
"Oil palms are ubiquitous--grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. And as Jonathan E. Robins shows, sweeping social transformations carried the plant around the planet. By telling the story of the oil palm across multiple centuries and continents, Robins demonstrates how the fruits of an African palm tree became a key commodity in the story of global capitalism, beginning in the eras of slavery and imperialism, persisting through decolonization, and stretching to the present day"--
1469662884 1469662892 9781469662886 9781469662893
2020056875
Capitalism.
Oil palm--Industrial applications.
Palm oil industry--Political aspects--History.
Palm oil industry--History.--Africa
Palm oil industry--History.--Southeast Asia
HD9490.5 .P343 / A357 2021
338.1/73851096