Plantation knowledge agricultural colonization, exploitation, and exchange since 1500
"Explores the diverse forms of expertise and ways of knowing that have historically drawn upon, exchanged, and developed at plantation sites, uncovering how plantations have been key, if fraught, locations in the global histories of science and technology"--
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Albany
SUNY Press
[2025]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Explores the diverse forms of expertise and ways of knowing that have historically drawn upon, exchanged, and developed at plantation sites, uncovering how plantations have been key, if fraught, locations in the global histories of science and technology"-- "The first book to examine plantations in their global variations through the history of knowledge. Few institutions feature as prominently in contemporary notions of colonialism, racism, and environmental degradation as the modern plantation. The racialized plantations of the Atlantic World loom large in the public imagination, namely those of the British Caribbean and the US South. Yet, the plantation has proliferated into the Information Age and has continued to expand across the tropical zone of our planet, surviving the abolition of slavery, the collapse of European empires, and the challenge of generations of anti-colonial thinkers. To grasp how the plantation has spread and evolved in our modern world, this volume studies what it terms plantation knowledge, or the types of expertise, experience, and information processing that have made and continue to make plantations possible. Drawing on case studies including Ireland, Mexico, Mississippi, Hawaiʻi, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Cuba, Brazil, and Central Africa, it examines the global spread of the plantation; the diverse people, beings, and forms of knowledge intertwined with this process; and the elasticity and durability of the plantation as a mode of commercial agriculture"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9798855803808 |