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From Silver to Cocaine
Latin American Commodity chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000
Carlos Marichal, Steven Topik & Zephyr Frank (eds.)
Duke University Press, 2006
Contents
Introduction
Commodity Chains in theory and in Latin American History (p. 1)
Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank
1. The Spanish-American Silver Peso: Export Commodity and Global Money of the Ancien Regime, 1550-1800 (p. 25)
Carlos Marichal
2. Indigo Commodity Chains in the Spanish and British Empires, 1566-1860 (p. 53)
David McCreery
3. Mexican Cochineal and the European Demand for American Dyes, 1550-1850 (p. 76)
Carlos Marichal
4. Colonial Tobacco: Key Commodity of the Spanish Empire, 1550-1800 (p. 93)
Laura Nater
5. The Latin American Coffee Commodity Chain: Brazil and Costa Rica (p. 118)
Steven Topik
6. Trade Regimes and the International Sugar Market, 1850-1980: Protectionism, Subsidies, and Regulation (p. 147)
Horacio Crespo
7. The Local and the Global: Internal and External Factors in the Development of Bahia’s Cacao Sector (p. 174)
Mary Ann Mahony
8. Banana Boats and Baby Fod: The Banana un U.S. History (p. 204)
Marcelo Bucheli and Ian Read
9. The Fertilizer Commodity Chains: Guano and Nitrate, 1840-1930 (p. 228)
Rory Miller and Robert Greenhill
10. Brazil in the International Rubber Trade, 1870-1930 (p. 271)
Zephyr Frank and Aldo Musacchio
11. Reports of Its Demise Are Not Exaggerated: The Life and Times of Yucatecan Henequen (p. 300)
Allen Wells
12. Cocaine in Chains: The Rise and Demise of a Global Commodity, 1860-1950 (p. 321)
Paul Gootenberg
Conclusion
Commodity Chains and Globalization in Historical Perspective (p. 352)
Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank
Contributors (p. 361)
Index (p. 365)
*****
"From Silver to Cocaine is an ambitious and novel application of the ‘commodity chain’ approach to the insertion of a whole continent into the world economy. It has no rivals".
-William Gervase Clarence-Smith, author of Cocoa and Chocolate, 1765-1914-
"From Silver to Cocaine is an important and innovative collection. It provides a corrective to the purely national studies of commodities and of export sectors, and to studies that posit influence in only one direction, focusing on the international penetration of capital and trade into Latin America. This book makes a strong statement about the direction of future research: it should be required reading for anyone interested in the economic history of Latin America, broadly conceived".
-Edward Beatty, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, university of Notre Dame-
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