Oil Palm (eBook)

A Global History

Jonathan E. Robins (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
432 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-6290-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Oil palms are ubiquitousgrown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. And as Jonathan E. Robins shows, sweeping social transformations carried the plant around the planet. First brought to the global stage in the holds of slave ships, palm oil became a quintessential commodity in the Industrial Revolution. Imperialists hungry for cheap fat subjugated Africas oil palm landscapes and the people who worked them. In the twentieth century, the World Bank promulgated oil palm agriculture as a panacea to rural development in Southeast Asia and across the tropics. As plantation companies tore into rainforests, evicting farmers in the name of progress, the oil palm continued its rise to dominance, sparking new controversies over trade, land and labor rights, human health, and the environment.By telling the story of the oil palm across multiple centuries and continents, Robins demonstrates how the fruits of an African palm tree became a key commodity in the story of global capitalism, beginning in the eras of slavery and imperialism, persisting through decolonization, and stretching to the present day.

Autor

Jonathan E. Robins is associate professor of history at Michigan Technological University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.6.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
• Reihe/Serie: Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
• Zusatzinfo: 20 halftones, 3 maps, 4 graphs
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: abolition of slavery • Agrofuels • belgian congo • Biofuels • British West Africa • Colonial Development Corporation • colonialism in West Africa • Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) • Detergents • economic imperialism • Elaeis guineensis • Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA) • Federated Malay States • French West Africa • gender in West Africa • Institut • legitimate commerce in West Africa • Margarine • Netherlands East Indies • Nigerian Institute for Oil Palm Research (NIFOR) • Nucleus Estate-Smallholder (NES) scheme • oil palm • oil palm plantation agriculture • Palm oil • palm oil methyl ester • slavery in West Africa • smallholder agriculture • SOAP • Southeast Asian environmental history • West Africa Institute for Oil Palm Research (WAIFOR) • West African environmental history • World Bank
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-6290-6 / 1469662906
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-6290-9 / 9781469662909