Jonathan E Robins
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 369144 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jonathan E Robins |
| NOMBRES | Jonathan E |
| APELLIDO | Robins |
| FIRMA | ROBINS J E |
| AFILIACIONES | Michigan Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0486-0353 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Roots of Power
Primary Commodities and Industrial Consumers
Most modern commodities serve as raw materials for industrial processes. From the eighteenth century, industrial demand drove new forms of production and the expansion of commodity production into new areas. While industries were shaped by the physical properties of commodities, commodities were also remade to suit changing industrial needs. New technologies rendered some commodities obsolete but could also give producers flexibility and resilien…
Shallow roots
In most narratives, the beginning of the oil palm industry in Southeast Asia boils down to entrepreneurial spirit, scientific research, and good fortune. The colonial context in which the industry emerged barely figures in the story. This article argues that colonial power was critical, providing access to land and labour that proved more important than plant selection, capital, or technology. The plantation model pushed the region ahead of Afric…
Food Comes First”
This article examines the origins of colonial-era nutrition policy in Ghana (the colonial Gold Coast). It shows how imperial ideas about food and nutrition evolved in response to changing conditions in Ghana, as well as in response to new ideas originating outside Africa. British officials initially assumed food was abundant, identifying a growing taste for imports among urban elites as a key problem. By the early 1920s, new personnel with new pr…
Smallholders and Machines in the West African Palm Oil Industry, 1850–1950
This article uses colonial-era Ghana as a case study in the challenges of mechanization in West Africa’s oil palm industry during the 19th and 20th centuries. While European industrialists pursued plantation-mill complexes in places like Congo and Southeast Asia, African entrepreneurs and government officials in British colonies focused on developing machines suitable for the small-scale producers who had built up the industry over the course of …
Imbibing the Lesson of Defiance”
This article examines a controversy over oil palm landscapes in colonial West Africa. Oil palms provide two important food products, palm oil and palm kernels, but they are also tapped for palm wine, an alcoholic drink produced from the sap of the tree. In Ghana (the colonial Gold Coast), the preferred wine-tapping method destroyed the tree, leading to conflicts among Ghanaians and with the colonial state over the best uses of oil palm trees. Man…
Empire of Cotton
Reviewed by: Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert Jonathan E. Robins Sven Beckert. Empire of Cotton: A Global History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. xxii + 615 pp. ISBN 978-0-375-41414-5, $35 (cloth). Sven Beckert’s long-awaited second book examines the central role of cotton in the making of capitalism. As Beckert and others have argued, writing the “history of capitalism” demands an interdisciplinary and transnational approach,…
A Common Brotherhood for Their Mutual Benefit
Unlike their national counterparts, international trade associations are a little-studied aspect of the global economic system. Much of the literature on trade associations has focused on rent-seeking behavior, although theories of transaction costs and social capital have been gaining influence. This article uses the early history of the International Federation of Master Cotton Spinners’ and Manufacturers’ Associations (IFMCSMA), still operatin…
Lancashire and the “Undeveloped Estates”
This article revisits the idea of “cotton imperialism” in Britain, showing that metropolitan support for cotton projects in the British Empire was uneven. Using the records of the British Cotton Growing Association's (BCGA) fund-raising campaign of 1902–1914, the article shows that “empire cotton” did not receive widespread support in Britain. In Lancashire, some cotton capitalists financed the movement for empire cotton, but many others refused …
Coercion and Resistance in the Colonial Market
Coercion and Resistance in the Colonial Market
Throughout the nineteenth century, the American South was the world’s leading producer of raw cotton. European — especially British — textile firms used American cotton to supply the world with cheap manufactured cloth. The African continent was on the periphery of this transatlantic circuit: forced into slavery and transported to the Americas, African peoples supplied much of the agricultural labour on which the cotton industry rested, but the A…
Two Models for World History
Slave Cocoa and Red Rubber
Over the last two decades, consumption, consumerism, and the idea of consumer agency have attracted a great deal attention from scholars across a number of disciplines. Among historians, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been identified as a crucial period for consumption, one in which consumers emerged as an influential group of political, economic, and social agents. Historians of the English-speaking world have advanced bo…
Colonial Cuisine
This article uses food as a window on the British colonization of Northern Nigeria between 1900 and 1914. It examines how Britons consumed food in the material and social contexts of colonialism and argues that food was an important tool for defining boundaries between rulers and the ruled. Colonial attitudes toward food expose the tension between propaganda and practice in contemporary texts that enthusiastically supported Britain's 'civilizing …
Colonial Cuisine
This article uses food as a window on the British colonization of Northern Nigeria between 1900 and 1914. It examines how Britons consumed food in the material and social contexts of colonialism and argues that food was an important tool for defining boundaries between rulers and the ruled. Colonial attitudes toward food expose the tension between propaganda and practice in contemporary texts that enthusiastically supported Britain's 'civilizing …
Food Comes First”
This article examines the origins of colonial-era nutrition policy in Ghana (the colonial Gold Coast). It shows how imperial ideas about food and nutrition evolved in response to changing conditions in Ghana, as well as in response to new ideas originating outside Africa. British officials initially assumed food was abundant, identifying a growing taste for imports among urban elites as a key problem. By the early 1920s, new personnel with new pr…
Lancashire and the “Undeveloped Estates”
This article revisits the idea of “cotton imperialism” in Britain, showing that metropolitan support for cotton projects in the British Empire was uneven. Using the records of the British Cotton Growing Association's (BCGA) fund-raising campaign of 1902–1914, the article shows that “empire cotton” did not receive widespread support in Britain. In Lancashire, some cotton capitalists financed the movement for empire cotton, but many others refused …
Roots of Power
Shallow roots
In most narratives, the beginning of the oil palm industry in Southeast Asia boils down to entrepreneurial spirit, scientific research, and good fortune. The colonial context in which the industry emerged barely figures in the story. This article argues that colonial power was critical, providing access to land and labour that proved more important than plant selection, capital, or technology. The plantation model pushed the region ahead of Afric…
A Common Brotherhood for Their Mutual Benefit
Unlike their national counterparts, international trade associations are a little-studied aspect of the global economic system. Much of the literature on trade associations has focused on rent-seeking behavior, although theories of transaction costs and social capital have been gaining influence. This article uses the early history of the International Federation of Master Cotton Spinners’ and Manufacturers’ Associations (IFMCSMA), still operatin…
Slave Cocoa and Red Rubber
Over the last two decades, consumption, consumerism, and the idea of consumer agency have attracted a great deal attention from scholars across a number of disciplines. Among historians, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been identified as a crucial period for consumption, one in which consumers emerged as an influential group of political, economic, and social agents. Historians of the English-speaking world have advanced bo…
Colonial Cuisine
This article uses food as a window on the British colonization of Northern Nigeria between 1900 and 1914. It examines how Britons consumed food in the material and social contexts of colonialism and argues that food was an important tool for defining boundaries between rulers and the ruled. Colonial attitudes toward food expose the tension between propaganda and practice in contemporary texts that enthusiastically supported Britain's 'civilizing …
Slave Cocoa and Red Rubber
Over the last two decades, consumption, consumerism, and the idea of consumer agency have attracted a great deal attention from scholars across a number of disciplines. Among historians, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been identified as a crucial period for consumption, one in which consumers emerged as an influential group of political, economic, and social agents. Historians of the English-speaking world have advanced bo…
Coercion and Resistance in the Colonial Market
Coercion and Resistance in the Colonial Market
Throughout the nineteenth century, the American South was the world’s leading producer of raw cotton. European — especially British — textile firms used American cotton to supply the world with cheap manufactured cloth. The African continent was on the periphery of this transatlantic circuit: forced into slavery and transported to the Americas, African peoples supplied much of the agricultural labour on which the cotton industry rested, but the A…
Two Models for World History
Empire of Cotton
Reviewed by: Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert Jonathan E. Robins Sven Beckert. Empire of Cotton: A Global History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. xxii + 615 pp. ISBN 978-0-375-41414-5, $35 (cloth). Sven Beckert’s long-awaited second book examines the central role of cotton in the making of capitalism. As Beckert and others have argued, writing the “history of capitalism” demands an interdisciplinary and transnational approach,…
A Common Brotherhood for Their Mutual Benefit
Unlike their national counterparts, international trade associations are a little-studied aspect of the global economic system. Much of the literature on trade associations has focused on rent-seeking behavior, although theories of transaction costs and social capital have been gaining influence. This article uses the early history of the International Federation of Master Cotton Spinners’ and Manufacturers’ Associations (IFMCSMA), still operatin…
Lancashire and the “Undeveloped Estates”
This article revisits the idea of “cotton imperialism” in Britain, showing that metropolitan support for cotton projects in the British Empire was uneven. Using the records of the British Cotton Growing Association's (BCGA) fund-raising campaign of 1902–1914, the article shows that “empire cotton” did not receive widespread support in Britain. In Lancashire, some cotton capitalists financed the movement for empire cotton, but many others refused …
Imbibing the Lesson of Defiance”
This article examines a controversy over oil palm landscapes in colonial West Africa. Oil palms provide two important food products, palm oil and palm kernels, but they are also tapped for palm wine, an alcoholic drink produced from the sap of the tree. In Ghana (the colonial Gold Coast), the preferred wine-tapping method destroyed the tree, leading to conflicts among Ghanaians and with the colonial state over the best uses of oil palm trees. Man…
Food Comes First”
This article examines the origins of colonial-era nutrition policy in Ghana (the colonial Gold Coast). It shows how imperial ideas about food and nutrition evolved in response to changing conditions in Ghana, as well as in response to new ideas originating outside Africa. British officials initially assumed food was abundant, identifying a growing taste for imports among urban elites as a key problem. By the early 1920s, new personnel with new pr…
Smallholders and Machines in the West African Palm Oil Industry, 1850–1950
This article uses colonial-era Ghana as a case study in the challenges of mechanization in West Africa’s oil palm industry during the 19th and 20th centuries. While European industrialists pursued plantation-mill complexes in places like Congo and Southeast Asia, African entrepreneurs and government officials in British colonies focused on developing machines suitable for the small-scale producers who had built up the industry over the course of …
Shallow roots
In most narratives, the beginning of the oil palm industry in Southeast Asia boils down to entrepreneurial spirit, scientific research, and good fortune. The colonial context in which the industry emerged barely figures in the story. This article argues that colonial power was critical, providing access to land and labour that proved more important than plant selection, capital, or technology. The plantation model pushed the region ahead of Afric…
Primary Commodities and Industrial Consumers
Most modern commodities serve as raw materials for industrial processes. From the eighteenth century, industrial demand drove new forms of production and the expansion of commodity production into new areas. While industries were shaped by the physical properties of commodities, commodities were also remade to suit changing industrial needs. New technologies rendered some commodities obsolete but could also give producers flexibility and resilien…
Roots of Power
Political science (9 obras) · Economics (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Archaeology (7 obras) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (7 obras) · History (7 obras) · African history and culture studies (6 obras) · Colonialism (6 obras) · Biology (5 obras) · Economic history (5 obras)