Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cotton: Environmental Histories of the Global Plantation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783593500287)

Worldwide, plantations are key economic institutions of the modern era. From an environmental perspective, they are also the settings for some of the most powerful, consequential, and frequently destructive modes of production ever to have existed. This volume assembles essays on commodities as diverse as coffee, cotton, rubber, apples, oranges, and tobacco, to provide an overview of plantation systems from Latin America to New Zealand that exposes the many dimensions of environmental history incorporated in these robust institutions. The global history of plantation systems not only highlights the great institutional resilience of our modern monocultures, but also the price that humans and environments have paid for them.

Author: Frank Uekötter
ISBN-10: 3593500280
ISBN-13: 9783593500287
Publisher: Campus Verlag
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2014
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.44h x 6.08w x 0.78d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2015 pg. 1205