Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cotton(English, Paperback, unknown)

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Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cotton(English, Paperback, unknown) is written by unknown and published by Campus Verlag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3593500280 (ISBN 10) and 9783593500287 (ISBN 13).

Worldwide, plantations are key economic institutions of the modern era. From an environmental perspective, they are also the settings for some of the most powerful, consequential, and frequently destructive modes of production ever to have existed. This volume assembles essays on commodities as diverse as coffee, cotton, rubber, apples, oranges, and tobacco, to provide an overview of plantation systems from Latin America to New Zealand that exposes the many dimensions of environmental history incorporated in these robust institutions. The global history of plantation systems not only highlights the great institutional resilience of our modern monocultures, but also the price that humans and environments have paid for them.