Jonathan Curry-Machado
Biographic Data
| ID | 710472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Curry-Machado |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Curry-Machado |
| SIGNATURE | CURRY-MACHADO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1 University of London School of Advanced Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Oxford Handbook of Commodity History
Commodities provide a lens through which local and global histories can be understood and written. The study of commodity history follows these goods as they make their way from land and water through processing and trade to eventual consumption. It is a fast-developing field with collaborative, comparative, and interdisciplinary research, with new information technologies becoming increasingly important. Although many individual researchers cont…
Youth and the Cuban Revolution
Even 60 years on, the Cuban Revolution continues to capture the imagination of people the world over.Despite this advancement in years, for many the island is still associated with the spirit of youthful rebellion.In this study, Anne Luke looks back at the formative decade of the 1960s-a time when globally the young seemed to be seizing the day, often inspired by the Cuban exampleand asks what this meant for Cuba itself.Her analysis attempts to p…
Rethinking Past and Present in Cuba
Alistair Hennessy died in 2013, having brought a breadth of scholarship to the study of Cuba that continues to be influential, encompassing not just Cuba, but Spain and the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean.This helped move Cuban studies away from insularity, toward new approaches that see the island in a wider geohistorical context.This edited collection comes out of the 2014 Cuba Research Forum conference held in his memory, and all the …
The Golden Leaf
In 1940, Fernando Ortiz famously described Cuban history as a counterpoint between two very different agricultural commodities: sugar and tobacco. Given that through the nineteenth and into the twentieth century Cuba's national identity, and relationship to the world, became very closely related with the former, this reminder that there was much more to the island than cane was of great importance. As Charlotte Cosner's study of Cuban tobacco sho…
Writing Secrecy in Caribbean Freemasonry, written by Jossianna Arroyo
Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions
Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions
Take a look around you. In our contemporary world, wherever your eyes fall and whatever need you seek to satisfy, it is near impossible to escape from a dependency upon commodities. Not only are we reliant upon goods that are bought, transported and sold for profit — as food, industrial components, even entertainment — but we have become ever more distanced from their geographical origins. We take for granted items that have come from the other s…
Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions
"The history of the modern world can be described through the history of the commodities that were produced, traded and consumed, on an increasingly global scale. The papers presented in this book show how in this process borders were transgressed, local agents combined with metropolitan representatives, power relations were contested and frontiers expanded. Including cases from Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as a number of global commodi…
Turning Javanese
By the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth, two islands had come to dominate global cane-sugar production. For most of the sixty-year period between 1870 and 1930, around half of the world's internationally traded crop came from Cuba and Java. The two islands had many topographical similarities that made them particularly well suited to the establishment of sugar plantations: both are relatively large islands with fertile…
Two Islands, One Commodity
Sugar had become, by the eighteenth century, a global commodity. Originating in East Asia, plantations in the Americas fed the growing taste for its use in Europe, with its consumption increasingly popularised. The 1791 Revolution in Saint Domingue (Haiti) and the 1807 British abolition of the slave trade prompted shifts in the epicentres of sugar, the most important of these being arguably to Cuba and Java. These two fertile islands saw the burg…
Cuban Sugar Industry
Nineteenth-century Cuba led the world in sugar manufacture and technological innovation was central to this. Through the story of a group of forgotten migrant workers who anonymously contributed to Cu
Blazing Cane
How Cuba burned with the ghosts of British slavery
Two Islands, One Commodity
Sugar had become, by the eighteenth century, a global commodity. Originating in East Asia, plantations in the Americas fed the growing taste for its use in Europe, with its consumption increasingly popularised. The 1791 Revolution in Saint Domingue (Haiti) and the 1807 British abolition of the slave trade prompted shifts in the epicentres of sugar, the most important of these being arguably to Cuba and Java. These two fertile islands saw the burg…
How Cuba burned with the ghosts of British slavery
Turning Javanese
By the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth, two islands had come to dominate global cane-sugar production. For most of the sixty-year period between 1870 and 1930, around half of the world's internationally traded crop came from Cuba and Java. The two islands had many topographical similarities that made them particularly well suited to the establishment of sugar plantations: both are relatively large islands with fertile…
How Cuba burned with the ghosts of British slavery
Cuban Sugar Industry
Nineteenth-century Cuba led the world in sugar manufacture and technological innovation was central to this. Through the story of a group of forgotten migrant workers who anonymously contributed to Cu
Blazing Cane
Two Islands, One Commodity
Sugar had become, by the eighteenth century, a global commodity. Originating in East Asia, plantations in the Americas fed the growing taste for its use in Europe, with its consumption increasingly popularised. The 1791 Revolution in Saint Domingue (Haiti) and the 1807 British abolition of the slave trade prompted shifts in the epicentres of sugar, the most important of these being arguably to Cuba and Java. These two fertile islands saw the burg…
Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions
Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions
Take a look around you. In our contemporary world, wherever your eyes fall and whatever need you seek to satisfy, it is near impossible to escape from a dependency upon commodities. Not only are we reliant upon goods that are bought, transported and sold for profit — as food, industrial components, even entertainment — but we have become ever more distanced from their geographical origins. We take for granted items that have come from the other s…
Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions
"The history of the modern world can be described through the history of the commodities that were produced, traded and consumed, on an increasingly global scale. The papers presented in this book show how in this process borders were transgressed, local agents combined with metropolitan representatives, power relations were contested and frontiers expanded. Including cases from Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as a number of global commodi…
Turning Javanese
By the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth, two islands had come to dominate global cane-sugar production. For most of the sixty-year period between 1870 and 1930, around half of the world's internationally traded crop came from Cuba and Java. The two islands had many topographical similarities that made them particularly well suited to the establishment of sugar plantations: both are relatively large islands with fertile…
Writing Secrecy in Caribbean Freemasonry, written by Jossianna Arroyo
The Golden Leaf
In 1940, Fernando Ortiz famously described Cuban history as a counterpoint between two very different agricultural commodities: sugar and tobacco. Given that through the nineteenth and into the twentieth century Cuba's national identity, and relationship to the world, became very closely related with the former, this reminder that there was much more to the island than cane was of great importance. As Charlotte Cosner's study of Cuban tobacco sho…
Rethinking Past and Present in Cuba
Alistair Hennessy died in 2013, having brought a breadth of scholarship to the study of Cuba that continues to be influential, encompassing not just Cuba, but Spain and the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean.This helped move Cuban studies away from insularity, toward new approaches that see the island in a wider geohistorical context.This edited collection comes out of the 2014 Cuba Research Forum conference held in his memory, and all the …
Youth and the Cuban Revolution
Even 60 years on, the Cuban Revolution continues to capture the imagination of people the world over.Despite this advancement in years, for many the island is still associated with the spirit of youthful rebellion.In this study, Anne Luke looks back at the formative decade of the 1960s-a time when globally the young seemed to be seizing the day, often inspired by the Cuban exampleand asks what this meant for Cuba itself.Her analysis attempts to p…
The Oxford Handbook of Commodity History
Commodities provide a lens through which local and global histories can be understood and written. The study of commodity history follows these goods as they make their way from land and water through processing and trade to eventual consumption. It is a fast-developing field with collaborative, comparative, and interdisciplinary research, with new information technologies becoming increasingly important. Although many individual researchers cont…
Cuban History and Society (9 works) · History (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economic history (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Biology (3 works)