From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy

From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000 (American Encounters/Global Interactions) (Paperback)by Steven Topik (Editor), Zephyr Frank (Editor), Carlos Marichal (Editor)

Contributors. Marcelo Bucheli, Horacio Crespo, Zephyr Frank, Paul Gootenberg, Robert Greenhill, Mary Ann Mahony, Carlos Marichal, David McCreery, Rory Miller, Aldo Musacchio, Laura Nater, Ian Read, Mario Samper, Steven Topik, Allen Wells

Product Details
Paperback: 377 pages
Publisher: Duke University Press (July 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0822337665
ISBN-13: 978-0822337669


Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more) hard fibers market, international rubber trade, wild rubber industry, crude cocaine, cacao supplies, zona henequenera, coffee commodity chain, historia del tabaco, sugar diplomacy, forastero cacao, natural rubber industry, grana cochinilla, cochineal trade, filière approach, henequen zone, fertilizer trades, international trading houses, coca industry, international sugar market, nitrate industry, nitrate trade, commodity chain approach, world coffee market, commodity chains, relative overproduction
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