Rice : global networks and new histories / edited by Francesca Bray, University of Edinburgh, Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Edda L. Fields-Black, Carnegie Mellon University, Dagmar Schäfer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
Bray, Francesca, editor.; Coclanis, Peter A., 1952- editor.; Fields-Black, Edda L., editor.; Schaefer, Dagmar, editor.
2015
SB191.R5 R4434 2015 (Mapit)
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Title Rice : global networks and new histories / edited by Francesca Bray, University of Edinburgh, Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Edda L. Fields-Black, Carnegie Mellon University, Dagmar Schäfer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
Uniform Title Rice (Cambridge University Press)
ISBN 9781107044395 (hardcover)
1107044391 (hardcover)
9781107622371
1107622379
Published New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Language English
Description xxi, 421 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Call Number SB191.R5 R4434 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 633.1/8
Summary "Global Networks and New Histories Rice today is food to half the world's population. Its history is inextricably entangled with the emergence of colonialism, the global networks of industrial capitalism, and the modern world economy. The history of rice is currently a vital and innovative field of research attracting serious attention, but no attempt has yet been made to write a history of rice and its place in the rise of capitalism from a global and comparative perspective. Rice is a first step toward such a history. The fifteen chapters, written by specialists on Africa, the Americas, and several regions of Asia, are premised on the utility of a truly international approach to history. Each one brings a new approach that unsettles prevailing narratives and suggests new connections. Together they cast new light on the significant roles of rice as crop, food, and commodity and shape historical trajectories and interregional linkages in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-398) and index.
Added Author Bray, Francesca, editor.
Coclanis, Peter A., 1952- editor.
Fields-Black, Edda L., editor.
Schaefer, Dagmar, editor.
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Introduction. Global networks and new histories of rice / Francesca Bray
Part I. Purity and promiscuity
1. Global visions vs. local complexity: experts wrestle with the problem of development / Jonathan Harwood
2. Rice, sugar, and livestock in Java, 1820-1940: Geertz's 'Agricultural involutions' 50 years on / Peter Boomgaard and Pieter M. Kroonenberg
3. A desire to eat well: rice and the market in eighteenth-century China / Sui-Wai Cheung
4. Rice and maritime modernity: the modern Chinese state and the South China Sea rice trade / Seung-Joon Lee
5. Promiscuous transmission and encapsulated knowledge: a material-semiotic approach to modern rice in the Mekong Delta / David Biggs
6. Red and white rice in the vicinity of Sierra Leone: linked histories of slavery, emancipation, and seed selection / Bruce L. Mouser, Edwin Nuijten, Florent Okry, and Paul Richards
Part II. Environmental matters
7. Rice and rice farmers in the Upper Guinea Coast and environmental history / Edda L. Fields-Black
8. Reserving water: environmental and technological relationships with colonial South Carolina inland rice plantations / Hayden R. Smith
9. Asian rice in Africa: plant genetics and crop history / Erik Gilbert
10. When Jola granaries were full / Olga F. Linares
11. Of health and harvests: seasonal mortality and commercial rice cultivation in the Punjab and Bengal regions of South Asia / Lauren Minsky
Part III. Power and control
12. The cultural meaning of work: the "black rice debate" reconsidered / Walter Hawthorne
13. White rice: the Midwestern origins of the modern rice industry in the United States / Peter A. Coclanis
14. Rice and the path of economic development in Japan / Penelope Francks
15. Commodities and anti-commodities: rice on Sumatra, 1915-1925 / Harro Maat.

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