Overview
- Approaches the issue of commodity frontiers from an interdisciplinary, bottom-up perspective, focusing on the ecological, economic, policy and/or social implications of frontier creation and perpetuation on nature and people at the local level
- Analyses the drivers of commodity frontier expansion
- Examines the key features of a commodity frontier
- Explores how the commodity frontier expansion impacted local, regional and global ecologies
- Reviews the ways labor relations and land tenure patterns have been transformed by commodity frontier expansion
- Looks at the relationship between commodity frontier expansion and state power
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Commodity Frontiers
- Global Capitalist Expansion
- Social policy
- Ecological policy
- Resource policy
- Jason Moore
- Economic history of frontier zones
- Land tenure patterns
- Economic history and demography
- Commoditisation of labour
- Natural resource economics
- Inequality and pollution
- Environmental History
- Sustainable Development
- Economic anthropology
About this book
This interdisciplinary edited collection explores the dynamics of global capitalist expansion through the concept of the ‘commodity frontier’. Applying an inductive approach rather than starting at the global level, as most meta-narratives have done, this book sheds light on how local dynamics have shaped the process of capitalist expansion into ‘uncommodified’ spaces. Contributors demonstrate that ultimately the evolution of frontier zones and their reconfiguration over time have transformed human ecology, labour relations and social, economic and political structures across the globe. Chapters examine agricultural and pastoral frontiers, natural habitats, and commodity frontiers with fossil fuels and mineral resources located in various regions of the world, including South America, Asia, Africa and the Arabian Gulf.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Commodity Frontiers and Global Capitalist Expansion
Book Subtitle: Social, Ecological and Political Implications from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day
Editors: Sabrina Joseph
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15322-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15321-2Published: 03 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15324-3Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15322-9Published: 19 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 292
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, International Political Economy, Environmental Policy, Labor Economics, Environmental Economics, Economic Policy