TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robins,Jonathan
TI  - Oil palm: a global history 
T2  - Flows, migrations, and exchanges
SN  - 1469662884
AV  - HD9490.5 .P343 A357 2021
U1  - 338.1/73851096 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Oil palm
KW  - Industrial applications
KW  - Palm oil industry
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - History
KW  - Africa
KW  - Southeast Asia
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -