Author: William Saunders
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Category : Tea
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Tea-culture as a probable American industry
Author: William Saunders
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Category : Tea
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Category : Tea
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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All about Tea
Author: William Harrison Ukers
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Category : Tea
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Category : Tea
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Tea War
Author: Andrew B. Liu
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252331
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
A history of capitalism in nineteenth‑ and twentieth‑century China and India that explores the competition between their tea industries “Tea War is not only a detailed comparative history of the transformation of tea production in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but it also intervenes in larger debates about the nature of capitalism, global modernity, and global history.”— Alexander F. Day, Occidental College Tea remains the world’s most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, Andrew B. Liu challenges past economic histories premised on the technical “divergence” between the West and the Rest, arguing instead that seemingly traditional technologies and practices were central to modern capital accumulation across Asia. He shows how competitive pressures compelled Chinese merchants to adopt abstract industrial conceptions of time, while colonial planters in India pushed for labor indenture laws to support factory-style tea plantations. Characterizations of China and India as premodern backwaters, he explains, were themselves the historical result of new notions of political economy adopted by Chinese and Indian nationalists, who discovered that these abstract ideas corresponded to concrete social changes in their local surroundings. Together, these stories point toward a more flexible and globally oriented conceptualization of the history of capitalism in China and India.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252331
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
A history of capitalism in nineteenth‑ and twentieth‑century China and India that explores the competition between their tea industries “Tea War is not only a detailed comparative history of the transformation of tea production in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but it also intervenes in larger debates about the nature of capitalism, global modernity, and global history.”— Alexander F. Day, Occidental College Tea remains the world’s most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, Andrew B. Liu challenges past economic histories premised on the technical “divergence” between the West and the Rest, arguing instead that seemingly traditional technologies and practices were central to modern capital accumulation across Asia. He shows how competitive pressures compelled Chinese merchants to adopt abstract industrial conceptions of time, while colonial planters in India pushed for labor indenture laws to support factory-style tea plantations. Characterizations of China and India as premodern backwaters, he explains, were themselves the historical result of new notions of political economy adopted by Chinese and Indian nationalists, who discovered that these abstract ideas corresponded to concrete social changes in their local surroundings. Together, these stories point toward a more flexible and globally oriented conceptualization of the history of capitalism in China and India.
Special Report
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 978
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 978
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A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased
Author: Samuel Austin Allibone
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
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The Bradley Bibliography
Author: Alfred Rehder
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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Catalogue. [With] Suppl. catalogue
Author: New Zealand gen. assembly, libr
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Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Imitation, Counterfeiting and the Quality of Goods in Modern Asian History
Author: Kazuko Furuta
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811037523
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This book focuses on the production of low-quality goods, the rise of markets for imitations and shoddy goods, and dishonest trading practices which developed along with the expansion of global trade in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in East Asia. Fake, imitation, counterfeit, and adulterated goods have long plagued domestic and international trade. While we are all familiar with contemporary attempts to control the manufacture and sales of such goods, economic historians have given the subject little attention, despite the fact that the growth of international trade and the lengthening of commodity chains played a major role in the spread of such practices. The problem is approached in several ways. Part I of the book examines the ways in which the asymmetry of product-quality information was reduced and mechanisms were developed to bring greater order in the markets, using case studies on cotton fiber, silk pongee, cotton cloth, fertilizer, and tea. Part II of the book focuses on problems associated with imported everyday-use items—which are referred to here as “small things”—and the role played by imitations of such everyday goods as soap, matches, glass bottles, and toys in the development of the modern economies of Japan, China and Taiwan. The project brings together the work of an international team of scholars who offer important historical perspectives on these issues, exploring the ways in which new institutions were created that continue to play a role in contemporary global economic activities.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811037523
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This book focuses on the production of low-quality goods, the rise of markets for imitations and shoddy goods, and dishonest trading practices which developed along with the expansion of global trade in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in East Asia. Fake, imitation, counterfeit, and adulterated goods have long plagued domestic and international trade. While we are all familiar with contemporary attempts to control the manufacture and sales of such goods, economic historians have given the subject little attention, despite the fact that the growth of international trade and the lengthening of commodity chains played a major role in the spread of such practices. The problem is approached in several ways. Part I of the book examines the ways in which the asymmetry of product-quality information was reduced and mechanisms were developed to bring greater order in the markets, using case studies on cotton fiber, silk pongee, cotton cloth, fertilizer, and tea. Part II of the book focuses on problems associated with imported everyday-use items—which are referred to here as “small things”—and the role played by imitations of such everyday goods as soap, matches, glass bottles, and toys in the development of the modern economies of Japan, China and Taiwan. The project brings together the work of an international team of scholars who offer important historical perspectives on these issues, exploring the ways in which new institutions were created that continue to play a role in contemporary global economic activities.
Bulletin
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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The Bradley Bibliography: Arboriculture-economic properties of woody plants
Author: Alfred Rehder
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Publisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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