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Oil palm : a global history / Jonathan E. Robins.

By: Series: Flows, migrations, and exchangesPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]Description: 1 volume : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1469662884
  • 1469662892
  • 9781469662886
  • 9781469662893
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.1/73851096 23
LOC classification:
  • HD9490.5 .P343 A357 2021
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HD9490.5 .P343 A357 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001507887

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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