Asian Plantation Histories at the Frontiers of Nation and Globalization

This is a review article of four new books on plantation histories of Asia which offer a sophisticated analysis of the configurations of liberal imperialism, colonial capitalism, and the construction of post-colonial nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The works discussed here are Rana Behal'sA hundred years of servitude(2014); Jayeeta Sharma'sEmpire's garden(2011); Ulbe Bosma'sThe sugar plantation in India and Indonesia(2013); and Kumari Jayawardena and Rachel Kurian'sClass, patriarchy and ethnicity on Sri Lankan plantations(2015

Ancient history · Capitalism · Colonialism · Economic history · Empire · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Geography · Globalization · Nationalism · Patriarchy · Political science · Sociology · South asia · Sri lanka · Anthropology · Australian History and Society · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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• Is Cane Sugar “Canadian”? The Disavowal of Global Lives and Lands within Canadian Sugar Marketing

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• Cosmopolitan Capitalists and Colonial Rule. The business structure and corporate culture of the Swiss merchant house Volkart Bros., 1850s–1960s

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• Sugar and slaves

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• The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia

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• Empire’s Garden

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• Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions

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• Fragments of Empire

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• Plantations, Proletarians and Peasants in Colonial Asia

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• Sugar and Slaves

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• Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society

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• Journey to the Center of the Earth

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