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050	0	0	_aHF3786.5 _b.A45 2018
100	1		_aAli, Tariq Omar
245	0	2	_aA local history of global capital : _bjute and peasant life in the Bengal Delta / _cTariq Omar Ali.
260			_aOxford : _bPrinceton University Press, _cc2018.
300			_axv, 244 p. : _bill., maps. ; _c24 cm.
490	1		_aHistories of economic life
504			_aIncludes bibliographies and index
520			_aBefore the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed fiber in the world, after cotton. While the sack circulated globally, the plant was cultivated almost exclusively by peasant smallholders in a small corner of the world: the Bengal delta. This book examines how jute fibers entangled the delta's peasantry in the rhythms and vicissitudes of global capital. Taking readers from the nineteenth-century high noon of the British Raj to the early years of post-partition Pakistan in the mid-twentieth century, Tariq Omar Ali traces how the global connections wrought by jute transformed every facet of peasant life: practices of work, leisure, domesticity, and sociality; ideas and discourses of justice, ethics, piety, and religiosity; and political commitments and actions. Ali examines how peasant life was structured and restructured with oscillations in global commodity markets, as the nineteenth-century period of peasant consumerism and prosperity gave way to debt and poverty in the twentieth century. A Local History of Global Capital traces how jute bound the Bengal delta's peasantry to turbulent global capital, and how global commodity markets shaped everyday peasant life and determined the difference between prosperity and poverty, survival and starvation.
526	0		_aEconomics
590			_aMd. Abdul Hakim
590			_aAmrita Rani Dash
650		0	_aJute industry _zBengal Basin _xHistory
650		0	_aBengal Basin _vSocial conditions _xHistory
650		0	_aBengal Basin _vEconomic conditions _xHistory
650		4	_aCommodity exchanges
856	4		_zFull text available: _3◉ login required _uhttps://opac.northsouth.edu/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=5cae20898b947aa08ac6e5da98e945f4
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