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- Cordeiro, Cheryl Marie, 1975
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Navigating the dual structure of world history: Sweden's trade relations with China from the Eighteenth Century
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Ingår i: Review. - 0147-9032 .- 2327-445X. ; 36:1, s. 25-40
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article reflects East-West relationships in world history. It traces the processes of globalization and highlights the differences between "international society" and "global society" by using the example of trade relations between Sweden and China, beginning in the 1700s. This example illustrates a unique relationship between countries that have thus far seemed to find their own equilibrium as part of "international society" while having between themselves a long-term understanding of collaborating towards an envisaged "global society".
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- Moore, Jason W., 1971-
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Madeira, Sugar, & the Conquest of Nature in the ‘First’ Sixteenth Century, Part I : From ‘Island of Timber’ to Sugar Revolution, 1420-1506
- 2009
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Ingår i: Review: a journal of the Fernand Braudel Center for the study of economies, historical systems, and civilizations. - Binghamton, N.Y. : Fernand Braudel Center for the study of economies, historical systems, and civilizations. - 0147-9032. ; 32:4, s. 345-390
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Madeira is a small island with a large place in the origins of the modern world. Lying 560 kilometers west of north Africa, Madeira was home to the modern world’s first cash crop boom, a sugar revolution. In the first of two successive essays in REVIEW, I explain how the epoch-making acceleration of boom and bust on Madeira, during Braudel’s “first” sixteenth century (c. 1450-1557), marked a new crystallization of the nature-society relations pivotal to the rise of capitalism. This new crystallization represented an ensemble of new capacities to exploit and extract extra-human nature much faster, and on a much larger scale, than ever before. It was a mode of socio-ecological conquest and commodification that was possible because of early capitalism's “commodity frontier” strategy, one premised on global expansion as a constitutive moment in the formation of the modern world-system – as capitalist world-ecology no less than world-economy. From this standpoint, the very conditions of Madeira’s rapid ascent were also the conditions of its rapid decline after 1506. These stemmed from the rapid commodity-centered organization, and consequent exhaustion, of the relations governing human and extra-human nature: labor and land.
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- Moore, Jason W., 1971-
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Nature and the transition from feudalism to capitalism
- 2003
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Ingår i: Review: A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center. - 0147-9032. ; 26:2, s. 97-172
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- An epochal transformation of nature-society relations was inscribed in the transition from feudalism to capitalism. This article advances three central propositions. First, the origins of today’s global ecological crisis are found in the emergence of the capitalist world-economy in the “long” sixteenth century - not in industrialization, population growth, or market expansion, as the conventional wisdom would have it. Secondly, the crisis of feudalism was a general crisis not only of medieval Europe’s political economy, but in equal measure an expression of feudalism’s underlying ecological contradictions. Thirdly, the rise of capitalism effected a radical recomposition of world ecology. As early as the sixteenth century, we can see how the emergent logic of capital, which at once implies endless expansion and seeks to flatten socio-ecological diversity, undermined the possibilities for a sustainable relation between nature and society. Capitalism thus differed radically from feudalism and all other precapitalist formations. Where earlier ecological crises had been local, capitalism globalized them. From this standpoint, the origins of capitalism may shed light on today’s ecological crises.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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Consumers and slavery: diversified markets for plantation produce and the survival of slavery in the 19th century
- 2011
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Ingår i: Fernand Braudel Center Review. - 0147-9032. ; 33:1, s. 69-88
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Market demand for plantation produce was crucial for the survival of American slavery in the 19th century. De-colonisation opened up for increasingly complex geographical patterns of trade for the American producers of these crops. This paper estimates quantitatively the ‘materialized labour’ necessary for the consumption of these goods, in order to show the impact of developing markets upon the institution of slavery. The paper finds that the production of goods for semiperipheral markets in Europe, such as the Baltic, required the labour of some 200,000 slaves annually by the middle of the 19th century.
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