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... outside the traditional framework of colonial history, focusing instead on the global dimensions of commodity production. Copyright © 2018 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2018 Angola coffee commodity chains consumption textiles ...

...Cathal Smith Abstract Commodity frontiers are transnational zones of ecological exploitation that have provided agricultural products and raw materials for international markets since the early modern era. As such, commodity frontiers have played a crucial role in the expansion and development...

...Barry Shank Copyright © 2000 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2000 Subject, Commodity, Marketplace: The American Artists Group and the Mass Production of Distinction Barry Shank In 1936, when Walter Benjamin...

... of commodities that incorporates global, national, and local scales; the role of the state in shaping historical human-environment interactions; the social and cultural production of environmental knowledge and geographical science; and the varying approaches to landscape change that partially parallel...

...Jeong Min Kim Abstract This article examines the global and social processes that turned subsidized US war supplies into South Korean black market commodities during the Korean War. The widespread circulation of army supplies to the local black market has been often considered a natural result...

...Ann Ngoc Tran Abstract This article theorizes and historicizes soap, a medical “gift” distributed by the US military to villages and hamlets in South Vietnam, as a commodity and as an infrastructure in the American war in Vietnam. During the war, soap not only operated as a tool to clean those...

... purity and consistency. In doing so, they have written sugar's modern history as one of artisan skill replaced by automation. They have also accepted that sugar as a commodity inevitably approaches a sameness that only modern science can measure. This essay argues that the notion that sugar is a globally...

..., they must also make connections to broader themes, including histories of empire, commodities, industrialization, and modernity. Food history classes are emerging globally. Perhaps for this very reason, even when food history classes engage with the history of a particular nation or region, the context...

... people pitched a battle with newspapers catering to the mercantile elite over the meaning of the violence. The conflicting sympathies of the newspapers provide an opportunity to assess the vulnerabilities of a food system characterized by new economies of scale and a speculative commodities trade...

... the last two centuries. In Europe, the United States, and more globally, critics have employed demand in an ostensibly neutral sense to suggest that sex functions like a commodity. For some it is the inevitable result of an inherent male sexual drive, while for others it is the mutable product of social...

... and African commodities has long distinguished African elites from the masses. In doing so, it also shows how violence, systems of enslavement, and the accumulation of wealth fueled a Dahomean Afropolitan aesthetic of worlds-in-movement, which served to distinguish elites as citizens of Dahomey and as humans...

... empire depended on new tools of seeing and new forms of scientific and medical expertise. Through a focus on the Harvard African Expedition to Liberia in 1926, the motion-picture record it gathered, and the place of rubber as a precious commodity in the global economy, this article investigates...

... shall mean by a mode of production generally. Then I shall have to explain what the household mode of production is not; namely, that it is not a commodity mode of production.* A mode of production, generally speaking, is a specific way of taking hold of, or appropriating, the material...

... their choice of words bear to the actual pattern of commodity-exchange? Historians regularly speak of the market as a process which spreads, diffuses, or otherwise penetrates the space of society. Even where they treat the market as a liberating or integrating influence, dissolving and cementing...

... and early 19th century America, and helps us to understand the depth of the conflicts that arose over the rise of capitalism. Moreover, Merrill checks firmly the muck-too- common assumption that all farmers and rural artisans had one goal in mind in this period-the establishment of commodity...

... difficult.lz I feel that assigning the peasantry to a separate mode of production is not legitimate, except in the limited sense of a subordinate mode within a capitalist (or feudal, or even socialist) formation. In general, the term "simple mode of pro- duction" (or "petty commodity mode...

... transformations that produce a proletariat labor power as a commodity, produce a mass culture, culture as an ”immense accumulation of commodities From the penny press and the dime novel to the $64,000 question and the million-dollar movie, cheap commodities of culture, entertainment and leisure...

... between western Europe and other parts of the world. The principle dynamic in this articulation is that as Europe developed it began to specialize in commodities that paid higher rents. Com- WHERE WAS THE PERIPHERY? / 29 modities that paid lower rents...

... by selling their labor power and getting in return a money wage with which they must purchase everything they need. The economic surplus is appropriated not by forcing producers to render service or payments but by paying them less in wages than the value in the market of the commodities they make...

... dimension of the production sphere-thus focusing the attention of historians on the producers of commodities and their manipulation of the consuming masses, rather than on the experi- ence of consumers themselves-but it also was predicated on an uncritical nostalgia toward the precapitalist past...