Topik / Marichal / Frank From Silver to Cocaine

Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8802-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

Reihe: American Encounters/Global Interactions

Claims that the history of commodities in Latin America (or anywhere) cannot be understood without considering their global context, often from a long-term perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Topik, Steven

Marichal, Carlos

Frank, Zephyr

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Commodity Chains in Theory and in Latin American History / Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank 1

1. The Spanish-American Peso: Export Commodity and Global Money of the Ancient Regime, 1550–1800 / Carlos Marichal 25

2. Indigo Commodity Chains in the Spanish and British Empire, 1560–1860 / David McCreery 53

3. Mexican Cochineal and the European Demand for American Dyes, 1550–1850 / Carlos Marichal 76

4.Colonial Tobacco: Key Commodity of the Spanish Empire, 1500–1800 / Laura Nater 93

5. The Latin American Coffee Commodity Chain: Brazil and Costa Rica / Steven Topik and Mario Samper 118

6. Trade Regimes and the International Sugar Market, 1850–1980: Protectionism, Subsides, and Regulation / Horacio Crespo 147

7. The Local and the Global: Internal and External Factors in the Development of Bahia’s Cacao Sector / Mary Ann Mahony 174

8. Banana Boats and Baby Food: The Banana in U.S. History / Marcelo Bucheli and Ian Read 204

9. The Fertilizer Commodity Chains: Guano and Nitrate, 1840–1930 / Rory Miller and Robert Greenhill 228

10. Brazil in the International Rubber Trade, 1870–1930 / Zephyr Frank and Also Musacchio 271

11. Reports of Its Demise Are Not Exaggerated: The Life and Times of Yucatecan Henequen / Allen Wells 300

12. Cocaine in Chains: The Rise and Demise of Global Commodity, 1860–1950 / Paul Gootenberg 321

Conclusion: Commodity Chains and Globalization in Historical Perspective / Carlos Marichal, Steven Topik, and Zephyr Frank 352

Contributors 361

Index 365

Über Autor(innen)

Steven Topik is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. His books include The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present (with Kenneth Pomeranz) and Trade and Gunboats: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Empire.Carlos Marichal is Professor in the Centro de Estudios Históricos at El Colegio de México. He is the author of A Century of Debt Crises in Latin America: From Independence to the Great Depression, 1820–1930 and numerous books in Spanish.Zephyr Frank is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Stanford University. He is the author of Dutra’s World: Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro.