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100	1		_aAli, Tariq Omar, _eauthor. _940769
245	1	2	_aA local history of global capital : _bjute and peasant life in the Bengal Delta / _cTariq Omar Ali.
246			_aA local history of global capital : _bjute & peasant life in the Bengal Delta
260			_aPrinceton ; _aOxford : _bPrinceton University Press, _cc2018.
300			_axii, 244 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
490	1		_aHistories of economic life
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 201-231) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- Cultivating jute: peasant choice, labor, and hunger -- Consumption and self-fashioning: the politics of peasant consumerism -- The spaces of jute: metropolis, hinterland, and Mofussil -- Immiseration -- Agrarian forms of Islam: the politics of peasant immiseration -- Peasant populism: electoral politics and the "rural Muhammadan" -- Pakistan and partition: peasant utopia and disillusion -- Conclusion.
520			_aBefore the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed fiber in the world, after cotton. While the sack circulated globally, the plant was cultivated almost exclusively by peasant smallholders in a small corner of the world: the Bengal delta. This book examines how jute fibers entangled the delta's peasantry in the rhythms and vicissitudes of global capital.Taking readers from the nineteenth-century high noon of the British Raj to the early years of post-partition Pakistan in the mid-twentieth century, Tariq Omar Ali traces how the global connections wrought by jute transformed every facet of peasant life: practices of work, leisure, domesticity, and sociality; ideas and discourses of justice, ethics, piety, and religiosity; and political commitments and actions. Ali examines how peasant life was structured and restructured with oscillations in global commodity markets, as the nineteenth-century period of peasant consumerism and prosperity gave way to debt and poverty in the twentieth century.A Local History of Global Capital traces how jute bound the Bengal delta's peasantry to turbulent global capital, and how global commodity markets shaped everyday peasant life and determined the difference between prosperity and poverty, survival and starvation.
526			_aGenEd
650		0	_aJute industry _zBengal Basin _xHistory. _940770
650		0	_aCommodity exchanges. _940771
650		7	_aCommodity exchanges. _2fast _940771
650		7	_aEconomic history. _2fast _940772
650		7	_aJute industry. _2fast _940773
650		7	_aSocial conditions. _2fast _940774
650		7	_aJuteanbau _2gnd _940775
650		7	_aRegionalwirtschaft _2gnd _940776
650		7	_aWelthandel _2gnd _940777
651		0	_aBengal Basin _xEconomic conditions _xHistory. _940778
651		0	_aBengal Basin _xSocial conditions _xHistory. _940779
651		7	_aIndia _zBengal Basin. _2fast _940780
651		7	_aGanges-Brahmaputra-Mündungsdelta _2gnd _940781
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast
830		0	_aHistories of economic life _940783
852			_aAyesha Abed Library _cGeneral Stacks
942			_2ddc _cBK
999			_c43189 _d43189