Rice : global networks and new histories / [edited by] Francesca Bray, University of Edinburgh, Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Edda Fields-Black, Carnegie Mellon University, Dagmar Schaefer, University of Manchester.

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ISBN:

9781107360266

9781316204061

Title:

Rice : global networks and new histories / [edited by] Francesca Bray, University of Edinburgh, Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Edda Fields-Black, Carnegie Mellon University, Dagmar Schaefer, University of Manchester.

Author:

Bray, Francesca, editor.

Uniform Title:

Rice (Cambridge University Press)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 421 pages) : illustrations, maps

Contents:

Introduction. Global networks and new histories of rice / Francesca Bray -- Part I. Purity and promiscuity -- 1. Global visions vs. local complexity: experts wrestle with the problem of development / Jonathan Harwood -- 2. Rice, sugar, and livestock in Java, 1820-1940: Geertz's 'Agricultural involutions' 50 years on / Peter Boomgaard and Pieter M. Kroonenberg -- 3. A desire to eat well: rice and the market in eighteenth-century China / Sui-Wai Cheung -- 4. Rice and maritime modernity: the modern Chinese state and the South China Sea rice trade / Seung-Joon Lee -- 5. Promiscuous transmission and encapsulated knowledge: a material-semiotic approach to modern rice in the Mekong Delta / David Biggs -- 6. Red and white rice in the vicinity of Sierra Leone: linked histories of slavery, emancipation, and seed selection / Bruce L. Mouser, Edwin Nuijten, Florent Okry, and Paul Richards -- Part II. Environmental matters -- 7. Rice and rice farmers in the Upper Guinea Coast and environmental history / Edda L. Fields-Black -- 8. Reserving water: environmental and technological relationships with colonial South Carolina inland rice plantations / Hayden R. Smith -- 9. Asian rice in Africa: plant genetics and crop history / Erik Gilbert -- 10. When Jola granaries were full / Olga F. Linares -- 11. Of health and harvests: seasonal mortality and commercial rice cultivation in the Punjab and Bengal regions of South Asia / Lauren Minsky -- Part III. Power and control -- 12. The cultural meaning of work: the "black rice debate" reconsidered / Walter Hawthorne -- 13. White rice: the Midwestern origins of the modern rice industry in the United States / Peter A. Coclanis -- 14. Rice and the path of economic development in Japan / Penelope Francks -- 15. Commodities and anti-commodities: rice on Sumatra, 1915-1925 / Harro Maat.

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Subject Term:

Rice -- History.

Added Author:

Bray, Francesca,

Coclanis, Peter A., 1952-

Fields-Black, Edda L.,

Schäfer, Dagmar,

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2015

Publication Information:

New York, NY :

Cambridge University Press,

2015.

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Summary

Rice today is food to half the world's population. Its history is inextricably entangled with the emergence of colonialism, the global networks of industrial capitalism, and the modern world economy. The history of rice is currently a vital and innovative field of research attracting serious attention, but no attempt has yet been made to write a history of rice and its place in the rise of capitalism from a global and comparative perspective. Rice is a first step toward such a history. The fifteen chapters, written by specialists on Africa, the Americas, and Asia, are premised on the utility of a truly international approach to history. Each brings a new approach that unsettles prevailing narratives and suggests new connections. Together they cast new light on the significant roles of rice as crop, food, and commodity, and shape historical trajectories and interregional linkages in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia.