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Commodity Frontiers and Global Capitalist Expansion

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Economic History Book Series

Editors: Joseph, Sabrina

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15322-9

ISBN: 978-3-030-15321-2

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jun 20, 2019

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Joseph, Sabrina

Pages: 1 –13

[Introductory overview of the commodity frontier concept, the scope of the book, as well as a synopsis and analysis of the individual book chapters.]
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Chapter 2Making Cheap Nature on High Altitude: A World-Ecological Perspective on Commodification, Communities and Conflict in the Andes

Cottyn, Hanne

Pages: 15 –56

[This chapter urges for a deeper historical, systemic and dialectical understanding of how capitalist development relates to the transformation of rural communities. It proposes a world-ecology perspective and adopts ‘commodity frontier’ as an analytical tool to explain the mechanisms and the...
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Chapter 3Agricultural Commodities on the Philippine Frontier: State-Sponsored Resettlement and Ecological Distress in the 1930s

Miller, Karen R.

Pages: 57 –77

[In 1938, a delegation of Filipino government officials traveled to Mindanao, a majority “non-Christian” province in the southern Philippines, to determine whether the Koronadal Valley would be a good site for resettlement. They believed that agricultural commodity production on the archipelago’s...
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Chapter 4Gendering Farmer Producer CompaniesProducer companies at the Agricultural Frontier of India: Empowerment or Burden?

Tandon, Indrakshi

Pages: 79 –109

[Farmer Producer Companies (FPCs) are driving agricultural frontier expansions in India. Their main objectives are to mobilize small-scale farmers to collectivize and organize in order to gain collective bargaining power, in the process empowering farmers and eliminating middlemen. However, they...
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Chapter 5Ecosystems as Commodity Frontiers—Challenges Faced by Land Set Aside as Protected Areas (PAs) in the Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Howarth, Brigitte; Khafaga, Tamer; Simkins, Greg; Joseph, Sabrina

Pages: 111 –136

[This chapter examines natural habitats in Dubai, UAE that the state has demarcated as protected areas (PAs) in an attempt to utilize them for recreational/economic purposes while also mitigating habitat fragmentation. The authors employ the concept of the ‘commodity frontier’ to demonstrate how...
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Chapter 6From the Amazon to the Congo Valley: A Comparative Study on the Violent Commodification of Labour During the Rubber Boom (1870s–1910s)

Cardoso de Mello, Louise; Van Melkebeke, Sven

Pages: 137 –181

[This chapter presents a comparative historical analysis of the process of labour commodification during the rubber boom period in Western Amazonia and the Congo Free State. Its primary objective is to address the debate on the expansion of commodity frontiers and its social repercussions on...
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Chapter 7Chilean Expansion and Southern South America’s Integration into the Modern Capitalist System, 1879–1931

Lockhart, James

Pages: 183 –214

[This chapter reconstructs Chilean expansion and southern South America’s integration into the modern capitalist system from the War of the Pacific (1879–1883) to the Ibáñez dictatorship (1927–1931). It argues that the region’s growing mining activities and Chileans’ use of force and negotiations...
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Chapter 8Red Fever: Natural Resource Companies and the Global Copper Mining Frontier 1890–1939

Declercq, Robrecht

Pages: 215 –253

[This chapter explores the activities of natural resource companies in opening the commodity frontiers of copper in the USA, Central and South America and Central Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is commonly held that the main challenges for modern mining companies resided in...
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Chapter 9A Toxic Development: Pollution and Change in an Amazonian Oil Frontier

Delgado Pugley, Deborah

Pages: 255 –277

[Although science widely recognizes the importance of the Western edge of the Amazon Basin for Earth’s ecological systems, it remains a region of oil extraction, with drilling sites dating back to the mid-twentieth century. The oil economy has a long-standing social and economic prominence, even...
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Chapter 10Conclusion

Joseph, Sabrina

Pages: 279 –285

[Concluding remarks regarding the contribution of the present volume to the field of study and areas for future research.]

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