Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cotton: Environmental Histories of the Global Plantation - Couverture souple

 
9783593500287: Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cotton: Environmental Histories of the Global Plantation
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3593500280 ISBN 13 : 9783593500287
Editeur : Campus Verlag, 2014

Synopsis

Worldwide, plantations are key economic institutions of the modern era. From an environmental perspective, they are also the settings for some of the most powerful, consequential, and frequently destructive modes of production ever to have existed. This volume assembles essays on commodities as diverse as coffee, cotton, rubber, apples, oranges, and tobacco, to provide an overview of plantation systems from Latin America to New Zealand that exposes the many dimensions of environmental history incorporated in these robust institutions. The global history of plantation systems not only highlights the great institutional resilience of our modern monocultures, but also the price that humans and environments have paid for them.

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À propos de l?auteur

Frank Uekötter is a reader in environmental humanities at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, The Greenest Nation?: A New History of German Environmentalism.

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Éditeur
Campus Verlag
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3593500280
ISBN 13 
9783593500287
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Éditeur
Uekotter Frank
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