Maat / Hazareesingh Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures

Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-38110-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 213 Seiten

Reihe: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies

The book brings together original, state-of-the-art historical research from several continents and examines how mainly local peasant societies responded to colonial pressures to produce a range of different commodities. It offers new directions in the study of African, Asian, Caribbean, and Latin American societies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maat, Harro

Hazareesingh, Sandip

Über Autor(innen)

Sandip Hazareesingh is Research Fellow in the History Department at the Open University, UK. He is the author of The Colonial City and the Challenge of Modernity (2007), and is currently researching the interactions between peasant livelihoods, colonial policies, climate and environment in nineteenth and twentieth century western India.

Harro Maat is Sociologist and Historian of Agricultural Science and Technology at the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation group of Wageningen University, Netherlands. His main focus is on crop improvement in the colonial period and current (bio)technologies for international development in India, South-East Asia and Africa.