02598nam 2200301zu 450 991097826610332120250218180041.0(CKB)37612688300041(EXLCZ)993761268830004120250218|2024uuuu || |engur|||||||||||Biomass, capitalism, and hegemony a rich and powerful history /Benoit DavironBloomsbury Academic20241-350-44325-5 1-350-44326-3 The united provinces : territories, resources and economic sectors -- The Baltics and the North Sea : the first peripheries -- Spices and companies : trade with another world-economy, Asia -- Mercantilism and the art of counting on your own forces -- Mobilizing resources from the national territory -- Distant biomass and social metabolism -- A portrait of an English hegemon as a biomass importer -- Overcoming "the tyranny of distance" : technical and institutional innovations -- The golden age of frontiers -- An intensive animal farming pole in Northwestern Europe -- On free labor -- And capital? Key for transport, negligible for agricultural production -- Germany : on a quest for an industrialization not dependent on long-distance biomass trade -- Imperialist strategies, the weapon of the weak : France and Japan -- The United States : from the legendary frontier to resolution of the long farm crisis -- The American model -- Uneven spread of the American model and the institutionalization of the Global North-South division -- International agricultural trade : limited, food-focused, and administered -- The second age of American hegemony -- Reorienting the world -- The "oil-based model" of biomass production and consumption pursues its global conquest -- The incomplete globalization of agricultural markets."In this open access magnum opus, published here in English for the first time, world-renowned critical development scholar Benoit Daviron blends Braudelian history and a food systems approach to show how biomass underpins the key historical phases of Western capitalist hegemony and the transitions between them"--Provided by publisher.Agricultural industriesWestern countriesHistoryBiomass energy industriesWestern countriesHistoryAgricultural industriesHistory.Biomass energy industriesHistory.338.094Daviron Benoît0BOOK9910978266103321Biomass, Capitalism, and Hegemony4324849UNINA