عنوان

From silver to cocaine :

(cloth : alk. paper)

(pbk. : alk. paper)

(cloth : alk. paper)

(pbk. : alk. paper)

0822337533

0822337665

9780822337539

9780822337669

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From silver to cocaine :

[Book]

Latin American commodity chains and the building of the world economy, 1500-2000 /

edited by Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank

Durham, N.C. :

Duke University Press,

2006

377 p. :

ill., map ;

24 cm

American encounters/global interactions

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : Commodity chains in theory and in Latin American history -- 1. The Spanish-American silver peso : export commodity and global money of the ancien regime, 1550-1800 -- 2. Indigo commodity chains in the Spanish and British empires, 1560-1860 -- 3. Mexican Cochineal and the European demand for American dyes, 1550-1850 -- 4. Colonial tobacco : key commodity of the Spanish empire, 1500-1800 -- 5. The Latin American coffee commodity chain : Brazil and Costa Rica -- 6. Trade regimes and the international sugar market, 1850-1980 : protectionism, subsidies, and regulation -- 7. The local and the global : internal and external factors in the development of Bahia's cacao sector -- 8. Banana boats and the baby food : the banana in U.S. history -- 9. The fertilizer commodity chains : Guano and nitrate, 1840-1930 -- 10. Brazil in the international rubber trade, 1870-1930 -- 11. Reports of its demise are not exaggerated : the life and times of Yucatecan Henequen -- 12. Cocaine in chains : the rise and demise of a global community commodity, 1860-1950 -- Conclusion : Commodity chains and globalization in historical perspective

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Exports-- Latin America-- History

Primary commodities-- Latin America

Latin America, Commerce, History

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Frank, Zephyr L.,1970-

Marichal, Carlos

Topik, Steven

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