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" From silver to cocaine : "
edited by Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank
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BL
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637330
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From silver to cocaine : : Latin American commodity chains and the building of the world economy, 1500-2000 /\ edited by Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank
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| Publication Statement
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Durham, N.C. :: Duke University Press,, 2006
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American encounters/global interactions
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377 p. :: ill., map ;; 24 cm
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0822337533
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: 9780822337539
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: 0822337665
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: 9780822337669
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction : Commodity chains in theory and in Latin American history -- 1. The Spanish-American silver peso : export commodity and global money of the ancien regime, 1550-1800 -- 2. Indigo commodity chains in the Spanish and British empires, 1560-1860 -- 3. Mexican Cochineal and the European demand for American dyes, 1550-1850 -- 4. Colonial tobacco : key commodity of the Spanish empire, 1500-1800 -- 5. The Latin American coffee commodity chain : Brazil and Costa Rica -- 6. Trade regimes and the international sugar market, 1850-1980 : protectionism, subsidies, and regulation -- 7. The local and the global : internal and external factors in the development of Bahia's cacao sector -- 8. Banana boats and the baby food : the banana in U.S. history -- 9. The fertilizer commodity chains : Guano and nitrate, 1840-1930 -- 10. Brazil in the international rubber trade, 1870-1930 -- 11. Reports of its demise are not exaggerated : the life and times of Yucatecan Henequen -- 12. Cocaine in chains : the rise and demise of a global community commodity, 1860-1950 -- Conclusion : Commodity chains and globalization in historical perspective
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Primary commodities-- Latin America
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Exports-- Latin America-- History
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Latin America, Commerce, History
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HF1040.9.L37T67 2006
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Topik, Steven
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Marichal, Carlos
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Frank, Zephyr L.,1970-
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