Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures: Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History

2014 Palgrave hardcover edition. Some marks to cover and edge else good condition. Contents: 1. Rice as Commodity and Anti-Commodity by Paul Richards; 2. Yellow Tobacco, Black Tobacco: Indigenous (desi) Tobacco as an Anti-Commodity by Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff; 3. Upland and Lowland Rice in the Netherlands Indies by Harro Maat; 4. Anti-Commodity Counterpoint: Smallholder Diversity and Rural Development on the Cuban Sugar Frontier by Jonathan Curry-Machado; 5. 'Your Foreign Plants Are Very Delicate': Peasant Crop Ecologies and the Subversion of Colonial Cotton Designs in Dharwar, Western India, 1830-1880 by Sandip Hazareesingh; 6. Sanitising Commercialisation: Health and the Politics of 'Waste' in Colonial Punjab by Lauren Minsky; 7. East African Railways and Harbours, 1945-1960: From 'Crisis of Accumulation' to Labour Resistance by David Hyde; 8. Rice, Civilisation and the Swahili Towns: Anti-Commodity and Anti-State? by Erik Gilbert; 9. 'Shun the White Man's Crop': Shangwe Grievances, Religious Leaders and Cotton Cultivation in North-Western Zimbabwe by Simeon Maravanyika.…