A local history of global capital [electronic resource] : jute and peasant life in the Bengal Delta

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서명/저자사항	A local history of global capital [electronic resource]: jute and peasant life in the Bengal Delta / Tariq Omar Ali.
개인저자	Ali, Tariq Omar, author.
발행사항	Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018.
형태사항	1 online resource.
총서사항	Histories of economic life
기타형태 저록	Print version: Ali, Tariq Omar. Local history of global capital. Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford, England : Princeton University Press, [2018] 9780691170237
ISBN	9781400889280 1400889286
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Maps; Introduction; 1 Cultivating Jute: Peasant Choice, Labor, and Hunger; 2 Consumption and Self-Fashioning: The Politics of Peasant Consumerism; 3 The Spaces of Jute: Metropolis, Hinterland, and Mofussil; 4 Immiseration; 5 Agrarian Forms of Islam: The Politics of Peasant Immiseration; 6 Peasant Populism: Electoral Politics and the â#x80;#x9C;Rural Muhammadanâ#x80;#x9D;; 7 Pakistan and Partition: Peasant Utopia and Disillusion; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Index
요약	Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed fiber in the world, after cotton. While the sack circulated globally, the plant was cultivated almost exclusively by peasant smallholders in a small corner of the world: the Bengal delta. This book examines how jute fibers entangled the delta's peasantry in the rhythms and vicissitudes of global capital.Taking readers from the nineteenth-century high noon of the British Raj to the early years of post-partition Pakistan in the mid-twentieth century, Tariq Omar Ali traces how the global connections wrought by jute transformed every facet of peasant life: practices of work, leisure, domesticity, and sociality; ideas and discourses of justice, ethics, piety, and religiosity; and political commitments and actions. Ali examines how peasant life was structured and restructured with oscillations in global commodity markets, as the nineteenth-century period of peasant consumerism and prosperity gave way to debt and poverty in the twentieth century.A Local History of Global Capital traces how jute bound the Bengal delta's peasantry to turbulent global capital, and how global commodity markets shaped everyday peasant life and determined the difference between prosperity and poverty, survival and starvation.
주제명(지명)	Bengal Basin --Economic conditions --History. Bengal Basin --Social conditions --History. India --Bengal Basin. --fast
일반주제명	Jute industry --Bengal Basin --History. Commodity exchanges. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Exports & Imports. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Marketing. POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs. Commodity exchanges. Economic history. Jute industry. Social conditions. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
분류기호(DDC)	382.0954
언어	영어
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