Plantation Knowledge : Agricultural Colonization, Exploitation, and Exchange Since 1500

• Autore: Miller Nicholas B
• Pubblicazione: United States, : State University of New York Press, 2025; Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2025; ©2025
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (354 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.3/49
• Soggetto topico: Racism - Economic aspects; Plantations - History; Colonization - History; Agriculture - Economic aspects - History; Agriculture - Aspect economique - Histoire; Colonisation - Histoire; Plantations - Histoire; Racism - Economic aspects - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): LindnerUlrike; MillerNicholas
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Plantation Knowledge: Concept, History, and Research -- Knowing a Plantation -- The Stakes of Plantation Knowledge -- Investigating Plantation Knowledge -- Epistemology -- Boundaries -- Experiments -- Institutionalization -- Reform -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part I: Epistemology -- Chapter 1 Between Irish Plantation and the Plantation Complex: The Down Survey (1654-1658), Projecting, and the Origins of Political Arithmetic -- Projects, Projecting, Projectors -- The Down Survey as a Project -- The Survey, the State, and the Transplantation into Connacht -- Reframing the Future in Terms of the Past -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2 The Badianus Herbal and Forced Indigenous Labor: Art, Land, and Nahua Knowledge in Sixteenth-Century Central Mexico -- The Colegio de Santa Cruz and the Creation of the Badianus Herbal -- Forced Labor, Draft Labor, and Economic Botany in Sixteenth-Century Mexico -- Encomienda and Corregimiento -- Coatequitl -- Competing Notions of Environmental Stewardship Depicted in the Badianus Herbal -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II: Boundaries -- Chapter 3 Sugar and Sovereignty in Hawai'i: John Adams Kuakini Cummins and Waimānalo Plantation, 1878-1895 -- Background -- John Adams Kuakini Cummins's Experiment, 1878-1885 -- From Royalist Politician to Anticolonial Activist, 1885-1895 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Experimental Paternalism: An Owenite Plantation in Mississippi, 1820-1870 -- Hurricane and Brierfield Plantations Under the Management of Joseph E. Davis, 1828-1861 -- Davis Bend in the Aftermath of the American Civil War, 1865-1866 -- The Continued Experiment and the Sale to Montgomery, 1866-1867 -- Transportation and Crop Experimentations as Communal Problems, 1867-1870 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part III: Experiments. ; Chapter 5 Revisiting the Charduar Plantation: Local Connections, Imperial Portfolios, and the Global Pathways of Assam Rubber -- Cash Crop Portfolios and the Rubber Plantation Revolution -- Charduar's Global Entanglements -- Ficus elastica and the Politics of the Local -- Plantation Research and Development -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Sugar in Province Wellesley: Converging Streams of Plantation Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Malaya -- A New Sugar Colony -- Labor Divisions -- Growing Sugar: The Circulation of Knowledge -- Ecology, Climate, and Weather -- Province Wellesley and Colonial Science -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part IV: Institutionalization -- Chapter 7 Cocoa and Coercion: Connected Histories of São Tomé and the Belgian Congo -- Making Colonial Congo -- São Tomé as a Plantation Model -- Cocoa as l'avenir du Congo -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Copra and Conquest: Penal Colonies and Botanical Knowledge in the American Colonial Philippines -- Punitive Relocation and Knowledge Infrastructure -- Copra's Conquest and Plantation Knowledge -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part V: Reform -- Chapter 9 Cane Farmers Versus Sugar Factories in Post-Emancipation Era Cuba and Brazil -- Sugar Regions, Industrial Knowledge, and the Origins of the Colonato -- Colono-Factory Negotiations in Cuba -- The Cane Farmers of Brazil -- Conclusion: The Circulation of Political Knowledge and State Capacity -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Managing Regulation: Changes of Policy and Continuities of Practice on Indian Tea Plantations, 1901-1931 -- Early Company Influence in the South Asian Tea Industry -- The Tea Industry at the End of the Nineteenth Century as Agricultural Enterprise: Exemptions and Consequences for the Labor Force -- The Assam Labour Board -- The Welfare of Tea Plantation Laborers after World War I -- The Tea Plantation as Site of Relief? -- Conclusion. ; Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Explores the diverse forms of expertise and ways of knowing that have historically drawn upon, exchanged, and developed at plantation sites, uncovering how plantations have been key, if fraught, locations in the global histories of science and technology"-- Provided by publisher.
• Titolo autorizzato: Plantation Knowledge
• ISBN: 979-88-558-0380-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996714906103316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: SUNY Press Open Access Series