1. Commodity frontiers: concepts and history.
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Berg, Maxine
- Abstract
'COMMODITY FRONTIERS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE GLOBAL COUNTRYSIDE: A RESEARCH AGENDA' provides an opportunity to connect recent topics in global history, environmental history and the new history of capitalism. The concept of commodity frontiers deployed by the authors, in contrast, seeks to combine resources, agriculture and rural society into one unit, and all of these, in turn into industrial and financial capitalism. The authors link these concepts of "commodity frontiers" and "commodity zones" to historical phases of capitalist development encapsulated in four "commodity regimes". These are: I First i : an early capitalist commodity regime marked by dispossession from land and nature, and the use of unfree labour, for example, the sugar commodity frontier (1600-1850). [Extracted from the article]
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- 2021
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