Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures: Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History by Maat, Harro

Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures: Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137381095)

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Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures: Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History by Maat, Harro

Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures: Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History

$99.99
Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures: Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History by Maat, Harro

Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures: Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History

$99.99
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Harro Maat
ISBN-10: 1137381094
ISBN-13: 9781137381095
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 10/19/2015
Pages: 213
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.80d
By Harro Maat
By Harro Maat
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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.

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