1. Rice as Commodity and Anti-Commodity 2. Yellow Tobacco, Black Tobacco: Indigenous (Desi) Tobacco as an Anti-Commodity 3. Upland and Lowland Rice in the Netherlands Indies 4. Anti-Commodity Counterpoint: Smallholder Diversity and Rural Development on the Cuban Sugar Frontier 5. 'Your Foreign Plants are Very Delicate': Peasant Crop Ecologies and the Subversion of Colonial Cotton Designs in Dharwar, Western India, 1830-1880 6. Sanitising Commercialisation: Health and the Politics of 'Waste' in Colonial Punjab 7. East African Railways and Harbours 1945-60: From 'Crisis of Accumulation' to Labour Resistance 8. Rice, Civilisation and the Swahili Towns: Anti-Commodity and Anti-State? 9. 'Shun the White Man's Crop': Shangwe Grievances, Religious Leaders and Cotton Cultivation in North-Western Zimbabwe
Sandip Hazareesingh is Research Fellow in the History Department at
the Open University, UK. He is the author of The Colonial City and
the Challenge of Modernity (2007), and is currently researching the
interactions between peasant livelihoods, colonial policies,
climate and environment in nineteenth and twentieth century western
India.
Harro Maat is Sociologist and Historian of Agricultural Science and
Technology at the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation group of
Wageningen University, Netherlands. His main focus is on crop
improvement in the colonial period and current (bio)technologies
for international development in India, South-East Asia and Africa.
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