@article{1457256,
      recid = {1457256},
      author = {Curry-Machado, Jonathan.},
      title = {Global histories, imperial commodities, local  interactions/},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiv, 286 pages ) :},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {"The history of the modern world can be described through  the history of the commodities that were produced, traded  and consumed, on an increasingly global scale. The papers  presented in this book show how in this process borders  were transgressed, local agents combined with metropolitan  representatives, power relations were contested and  frontiers expanded. Including cases from Asia, Africa and  the Americas, as well as a number of global commodities  (sugar, tobacco, rubber, cotton, cassava, tea and beer),  this collection presents a sample of the range of  innovative research taking place today into commodity  history. Together they cover the last two centuries, in  which commodities have led the consolidation of a  globalised economy and society - forging this out of  distinctive local experiences of cultivation and  production, and regional circuits of trade"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1457256},
}