Palm Oil Diaspora

ISBN-13: 9781108746236 / Miękka / 2023 / 367 str.

Virginia) Watkins Case (James Madison University

Opis

An environmental history and political ecology of palm oil in colonial Brazil, the African diaspora, and the Atlantic World.

Recenzje

'This is an extraordinary and timely study of both the history and contemporary circumstances concerning the African oil palm in Brazil … The book is clearly written, very well structured …' Merle L. Bowen, Agricultural History

Spis treści

1. Assembling an Afro-Brazilian economy; 2. African and Atlantic Worlds; 3. Creolization; 4. An Afro-Brazilian landscape; 5. South Atlantic exchange; 6. Landscapes, religions, transitions; 7. Complexity; Epilogue: decolonizing dendê.