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- Hodacs, Hanna
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Substituting Coffee and Tea in the Eighteenth Century : A Rural and Material History with Global Implications
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Global History. - : Cambridge University Press. - 1740-0228 .- 1740-0236. ; 18:3, s. 461-480
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses the material history of coffee and tea by drawing on mid-eighteenth-century substitute recipes collected by physicians in different provinces of Sweden, applying perspectives from economic history, the history of science, medicine, and globalization. The starting point for the analysis is that a substitute can be said to reflect what are perceived as the most important properties, in terms of look, feel, taste, and scent, of the thing being copied. The products of a predominantly self-sustained agrarian world, the tea and coffee substitutes offered a distinctive rural alternative to the new exotic beverages. In terms of ecology and economy, this context encompassed large parts of central and north-eastern Europe; it also involved areas with a history of consumption that differed considerably from those of the cosmopolitan elites which have hitherto dominated the scholarship on eighteenth-century coffee and tea. The article finally suggests that the ways in which early modern substitutes were consumed and processed helped pave the way for the mass consumption of imported goods in rural areas of Europe in the following centuries.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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On the economic importance of the slave plantation complex to the British economy during the eighteenth century: a value-added approach
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Global History. - : Cambridge University Press (CUP). - 1740-0228 .- 1740-0236. ; 13:3, s. 309-327
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There has been a long-standing debate on the global importance of the African external slave trades. While many scholars believe these to have been detrimental to African development, they were clearly a determining factor in the development of the Americas. What role they played for the European colonial powers is, however, hotly debated. This article contributes to the debate by estimating value added in the Triangular Trade and the American plantation complex. The article empirically studies the case of British connections to the African slave trade and the American plantation complex during the eighteenth century, since these have been the focus of much previous scholarly debate. The estimates suggest that these trades grew substantially over the period, reaching a magnitude equivalent to about 11% of the British economy by the early nineteenth century.
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- Tremml-Werner, Birgit, 1983-
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Rethinking colonialism through early modern global diplomacy : A tale of Pampangan mobility
- 2024
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Ingår i: Journal of Global History. - 1740-0228 .- 1740-0236. ; 19:1, s. 18-36
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study is an intervention in early modern global diplomacy. Integrating an indigenous community of the Philippines into foreign relations and maritime connections, the article reevaluates the complex story of the Pampangans of Luzon, allegedly long-term allies of the Spanish conquerors, and the narrative of indigenous collaboration. Foregrounding the Pampangans’ involvement in military campaigns, as well as territorial and maritime expansion in the early decades of the 1600s, the article introduces three scenarios of Pampangan power bargaining with global consequences. The focus on Pampangan foreign relations opens new analytical perspectives on the role of language and knowledge for internal coloniality on the one hand, foreign and diplomatic negotiations on the other. Methodologically, it proposes a deep (re-)reading of the polyvocal archive of the colonial-indigenous encounter and integrates insights with the largely separated scholarship of diplomatic and indigenous history as a new avenue in global history.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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New and old peripheries - Britain, the Baltic and the Americas in the Great Divergence
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Global History. - 1740-0228. ; 5:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In his seminal book The Great Divergence, Kenneth Pomeranz has argued that access to inputs from the vast acreages available in the Americas was crucial for the industrial revolution in Britain. But could no other regions of the world have provided the inputs in demand? Recent research claims that this could have been the case. This paper takes that research one step further by studying Britain’s trade with an old and important peripheral trading-partner, the Baltic, contrasting this to the British trade with America. This paper finds that production for export was not necessarily stagnating in the Baltic, as Pomeranz has claimed. Qualitative aspects of the factor endowment of land did however not enable the production of specific raw materials such as cotton, to meet the increasing demand. Thus, the decreasing role of the Baltic ought to a large extent be attributed to the patterns of British industrialization, and the demand it created for specific raw materials, rather than internal, institutional constraints in the Baltic region.
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