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Robins, Jonathan,.
Oil palm : : a global history / / Jonathan E. Robins. - Chapel Hill : : University of North Carolina Press,, [2021]. - 1 online resource. - (Flows, migrations, and exchanges). - Includes bibliographical references and index. - URL: https://library.dvfu.ru/lib/document/SK_ELIB/F481509F-A6C8-46F1-8FFB-7FD86126C04C
. - ISBN 9781469662916 (electronic bk.). - ISBN 1469662914 (electronic bk.)
Print version record.
Параллельные издания: Print version: : Robins, Jonathan. Oil palm. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]. - ISBN 9781469662886
Содержание:
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.
Рубрики: Palm oil industry--History.--Africa
Palm oil industry--History.--Southeast Asia
Palm oil industry--Political aspects--History.
Oil palm--Industrial applications.
Capitalism.
SCIENCE / Environmental Science
Capitalism.
Palm oil industry.
Africa.
Southeast Asia.
Аннотация: "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"--