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Embedding Agricultural Commodities: Using Historical Evidence, 1840s–1940s
No full textOver the past 500 years westerners have turned into avid consumers of colonial products and various production systems in the Americas, Africa and Asia have adapted to serve the new markets that opened up in the wake of the "European encounter". The effects of these transformations for the long-term development of these societies are fiercely contested. How can we use historical source material to pinpoint this social change? This volume presents six different examples from countries in which commodities were embedded in existing production systems - tobacco, coffee, sugar and indigo in Indonesia, India and Cuba - to shed light on this key process in human history. To demonstrate the effectiveness of using different types of source material, each contributor presents a micro-study based on a different type of historical source: a diary, a petition, a "mail report", a review, a scientific study and a survey. As a result, the volume offers insights into how historians use their source material to construct narratives about the past and offers introductions to trajectories of agricultural commodity production, as well as much new information about the social struggles surrounding them
Jatir Hoye Ke Bole? Jatiyotabadi Shunnogorbho Boktrita Ebond Shangskritik Bohuttobader Protibad
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Jatir Hoye Ke Bole? Jatiyotabadi Shunnogorbho Boktrita Ebond Shangskritik Bohuttobader Protibad
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Who speaks for the nation? Nationalist rhetoric and the challenge of cultural pluralism in Bangladesh
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Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces: An Introduction
No full textThis volume presents a conversation between historians and anthropologists who work at the crosscurrents of Asian borderland studies and Trans-Himalayan studies. We focus on the evolving relationships of time, space, and place, while combining the ethnographically historical and the historically ethnographic. In line with many recent studies, this volume challenges the conventional foregrounding of nation-states (a short-lived phenomenon in the longer view) without, however, resorting to the fantasy of disembodied flows. Contemporary events require long-term perspectives since past mobilities underlie many of today’s complex conflicts. Anchored in the region’s stunning landscapes (but not determined by them), flows are negotiated in webs of human interaction (but not defined by them)
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