This unique study contributes to three important research fields: the history of commodities, the his-tory of the colonial developmental state, and the agrarian

"This unique study contributes to three important research fields: the history of commodities, the his-tory of the colonial developmental state, and the agraria

Over the past 500 years westerners have turned into avid consumers of colonial products and various production systems in the Americas, Africa and Asia have ada

This book looks at agriculture, development, poverty and British rule in India, especially in the Patna Division in Bihar between c.1870–1920. It traces the e

"Commodities provide a lens through which local and global histories can be understood and written. The study of commodities history follows these goods as they