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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
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- Moore, Jason W., 1971- (författare)
- Umeå universitet,Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier,Umeå Studies in Science, Technology, and Environments
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- Binghamton, N.Y. Fernand Braudel Center for the study of economies, historical systems, and civilizations, 2009
- 2009
- Engelska.
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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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Abstract
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- 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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- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Ekonomisk historia (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economic History (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Madeira
- sugar
- commodity frontier
- European expansion
- transition to capitalism
- deforestation
- capitalism
- capitalism as world-ecology
- world-systems analysis
- historical geography
- political ecology
- political economy
- historical sociology
- environmental history
- Agricultural economics
- Jordbruksekonomi
- Human ecology
- Humanekologi
- Human geography, economic geography
- Kulturgeografi, ekonomisk geografi
- Sociology
- Sociologi
- Agricultural history
- Agrarhistoria
- Economic history
- Ekonomisk historia
- Technology and social change
- Teknik och social förändring
- Economic History
- ekonomisk historia
- Social and Economic Geography
- kulturgeografi
- hållfasthetslära
- Solid Mechanics
- Systems Analysis
- systemanalys
- historia
- History
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- ref (ämneskategori)
- art (ämneskategori)
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