Oil palm : a global history /
"Oil palms are ubiquitous--grown 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 ca...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- The oil palm in Africa
- Early encounters across the Atlantic world
- From "legitimate commerce" to the "scramble for Africa"
- Oil palms in the Industrial Revolution
- Machines in the palm groves
- African smallholders under colonial rule
- The plantation complex in southeast Asia
- From colonialism to development
- Industrial frontiers
- The oil palm's new frontiers
- Globalization and the oil palm boom.
