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From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000

From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000

Topik, Steven
Marichal, Carlos
Frank, Zephyr

Hardcover

Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions

Business GeneralEconomics

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ISBN10: 0822337533
ISBN13: 9780822337539
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jul 18 2006
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Demonstrating that globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon, From Silver to Cocaine examines the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for five hundred years. In clear, accessible essays, historians from Latin America, England, and the United States trace the paths of many of Latin America's most important exports: coffee, bananas, rubber, sugar, tobacco, silver, henequen (fiber), fertilizers, cacao, cocaine, indigo, and cochineal (insects used to make dye). Each contributor follows a specific commodity from its inception, through its development and transport, to its final destination in the hands of consumers. The essays are arranged in chronological order, according to when the production of a particular commodity became significant to Latin America's economy. Some--such as silver, sugar, and tobacco--were actively produced and traded in the sixteenth century; others--such as bananas and rubber--only at the end of the nineteenth century; and cocaine only in the twentieth.

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