A Local History of Global Capital: Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta (Ali Tariq Omar)(Pevná vazba)

A Local History of Global Capital: Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta (Ali Tariq Omar)(Pevná vazba)

A Local History of Global Capital: Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta (Ali Tariq Omar)(Pevná vazba)

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Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed fiber in the world, after cotton. While the sack circulated globally, the plant was cultivated almost exclusively by peasant smallholders in a small corner of the world: the Bengal delta. This book examines how jute fibers entangled the delta's peasantry in the rhythms and vicissitudes of global capital.

Taking readers from the nineteenth-century high noon of the British Raj to the early years of post-partition Pakistan in the mid-twentieth century, Tariq Omar Ali traces how the global connections wrought by jute transformed every facet of peasant life: practices of work, leisure, domesticity, and sociality; ideas and discourses

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