Across Colonial Lines: Commodities, Networks and Empire Building by Gupta, Devyani

Across Colonial Lines: Commodities, Networks and Empire Building (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350327054)

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Across Colonial Lines: Commodities, Networks and Empire Building by Gupta, Devyani

Across Colonial Lines: Commodities, Networks and Empire Building

$39.95
Across Colonial Lines: Commodities, Networks and Empire Building by Gupta, Devyani

Across Colonial Lines: Commodities, Networks and Empire Building

$39.95
Format: Paperback
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Across Colonial Linestakes a multi-perspective approach to the study of empire and commodities, and encourages readers to look at commodity histories in alternative spatial and temporal contexts. It offers a comparative understanding of commodities in the Venetian, Portuguese, Dutch, French and British Empires.

Highlighting the interwoven character of multiple commodity networks, this book situates commodities like gold, coffee, tea and indigo, to name a few, within pre-existing networks of labour, consumption and knowledge production. It explores the nexus between the local and the global, and highlights the role played by individual producers, petty traders, sailors and even consumers in creating regional circulations within a global political economy. In this volume, commodity networks are not just sites of production and trade, but also of political control, social organisation and consumption choices. They provide the impetus for globalisation from as early as the thirteenth century.

Each chapter takes an individual commodity to illustrate the history of commodity transmission within imperial contexts. From early modern Venetian commerce to the trade networks of the Eurasian world; from the trading ambitions of British sailors to Portuguese global imperial ambitions; from the cross-imperial knowledge networks of indigo to the assertion of indigenous agency in Angola; and from the commodification of labour to the experience of tourism in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean World, Across Colonial Lines uses commodity networks as a lens to study empire building across varied yet connected geographies and chronologies.

Author: Devyani Gupta
ISBN-10: 1350327050
ISBN-13: 9781350327054
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 08/22/2024
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.57d
By Devyani Gupta
By Devyani Gupta
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Devyani Gupta is Associate Professor at Jindal Global University, India, and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at University of Leeds, UK. She has held fellowships awarded by the Leverhulme Trust and Volkswagen Stiftung, and has taught at the Universities of Delhi, India, California, USA, and Leeds, UK.

Purba Hossain is Economic History Society Tawney Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research London, UK, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK. She received her PhD from Leeds University, UK, and is a recipient of the Royal Historical Society Marshall Fellowship.

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