Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cotton: Environmental Histories of the Global Plantation

ISBN-13: 9783593500287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str.

Frank Uekotter

Opis

Worldwide, plantations are key economic institutions of the modern era. From an environmental perspective, they are also the settings for some of the most powerful, consequential, and frequently destructive modes of production ever to have existed. This volume assembles essays on commodities as diverse as coffee, cotton, rubber, apples, oranges, and tobacco, to provide an overview of plantation systems from Latin America to New Zealand that exposes the many dimensions of environmental history incorporated in these robust institutions. The global history of plantation systems not only highlights the great institutional resilience of our modern monocultures, but also the price that humans and environments have paid for them.

Recenzje

»Die einzelnen Beiträge ermöglichen interessante Einblicke in ganz unterschiedliche Facetten der Plantagenwirtschaft in sehr verschiedenen geographischen, politischen und kulturellen Settings, die jedoch gleichzeitig die zunehmend globale Vernetzung der Welt widerspiegeln, die im untersuchten Zeitraum zu großen Teilen kolonial geprägt war.« Birgit Metzger, Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie, 22.11.2018

Spis treści

Contents

Rise, Fall, and Permanence. Issues in the Environmental History of the Global Plantation

Frank Uekötter 7

Plantations, Agroecology, Environmental Thought, and the American South

Mart A. Stewart 27

Cotton's Metropolis: Memphis and Plantation Development in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1920

Jeannie M. Whayne 49

Ephemeral Plantations: The Rise and Fall of Liberian Coffee,

1870-1900

Stuart McCook 85

Between "Wild Tropics" and "Civilization": Guatemalan Coffee Plantations as Seen by German Immigrants

Christiane Berth 113

Divide and Cultivate: Plantations, Militarism and Environment in Portuguese Timor, 1860-1975

Chris Shepherd and Andrew McWilliam 139

Pines, Pests and Fires: Large Scale Plantation Forestry in New Zealand, 1897-1955

Michael Roche 167

How Nature Works: Business, Ecology, and Rubber Plantations in Colonial Southeast Asia, 1919-1939

Michitake Aso 195

Apple Orchards in Southern Brazil: An Environmental History

Jó Klanovicz 221

Plantations and the Rise of a Society in São Tomé and Príncipe

Marina Padrão Temudo 239

Notes on Authors 261

Index 263

O autorze

Frank Uekötter ist Professor für Geschichte und geisteswissenschaftliche Umweltforschung an der Universität Birmingham in Großbritannien.