Alexander van Wickeren, Jean Stubbs, William Gervase Clarence-Smith (επιμ.)
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham 2024 [ISBN 978-3-031-64410-8, σ. ΧΙΙΙ, 388]
Τύπος: Νέες Εκδόσεις

This edited collection provides an in-depth analysis of the imperial, colonial, and postcolonial history of tobacco from 1780 to 1960, which was one of the major periods of change in the global tobacco economy. It brings together case-studies from known and lesser-known tobacco regions of the world to interrogate tobacco’s ‘second globalisation’, a concept little employed by historians thus far, but one which encapsulates tobacco’s central role in Europe’s imperial expansion beyond the Atlantic and the social, political, and cultural transformations of global capitalism taking place during the period. The collection fills a gap in the study of commodities of empire, which has examined tobacco primarily for the early modern Atlantic world, or for single empires during the later period. It invites comparison across borders, encompassing political, economic, and sociocultural history, and, with a particular emphasis on trade, knowledge, and labour, juxtaposes micro-histories with a macro-historical perspective. Together, the studies in the volume testify to the importance of tobacco in new places and among new players, challenging the confines of national and imperial historiographical frameworks. They demonstrate the rising dominance of new powerful forces, including transnational corporations, but also a wide range of actors in conflict and negotiation within territorial and imperial confines. By systematically taking into account the agency in Europe’s apparent peripheries and the Global South, they critique a simple assumption of the dominance of the West. 

Contents

1 Introduction: Tobacco’s Second Globalisation
Alexander van Wickeren, Jean Stubbs and William Gervase Clarence-Smith

Part I Trade
2 Liberalising Tobacco in the Philippines During the Nineteenth-Century Late Spanish Colonial Period
Xavier Huetz de Lemps and María Dolores Elizalde
3 The Resilience of Hand-Rolled Cigarettes: Marketing Imported Tobacco in East Africa, 1880–1939
Laird Jones
4 Prosumption as Glocal History: Production and Consumption of Cigarettes in Egypt, 1890–1939
Relli Shechter
5 Imperial Markets: The Anglo-Rhodesian Tobacco Trade in the Aftermath of World War II
Sibanengi Ncube

Part II Knowledge
6 Imperial Rivalries and Agronomic Reform: Tobacco Plantations in the Venetian lonian Islands and Dalmatia, 1760s–1790s
Guido Cioni
7 Knowledge and Politics: The León y Castillo Brothers and the ‘Cuban Model’ of Tobacco in the Canary Islands, 1852–1914
Santiago de Luxán Meléndez and María de los Reyes Hernández Socorro
8 Tobacco Fantasies in German Southwest Africa, 1884–1915
Martin Kalb
9 Mechanising the Greek Tobacco Industry: Worker Knowledge, Protest, and Territorial Expansion, 1890–1925
Christos Karampatsos and Nikos Alexis

Part III Labour
10 Tobacco Contestations: State, Planters, and Peasants in Besoeki Residency, East Java, Mid-Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries
Ratna Saptari
11 State Labour Control and Women’s Resistance in Austro-Hungarian Transylvania Tobacco Manufacturing (1897–1918)
Alexandra Ghit
12 Global Labour and Management Migrations: BAT-China, 1910s–1930s
Nan Enstad
13 Palestinian Fellahin Tobacco ‘Smuggling’ Under Late Ottoman, British, and Israeli Rule
Basma Fahoum

14 Afterword: Tobacco’s Glocal Worlds
Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff