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Cocoa and chocolate, 1765-1914
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Cocoa and chocolate, 1765-1914

Author: W G Clarence-Smith
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Focusing on the period from the Seven Years War to the First World War Clarence-Smith discusses how cocoa production helped transform some economies but ultimately failed to act as a dynamo for large  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: W G Clarence-Smith
ISBN: 0415215765 9780415215763 9780203461860 020346186X
OCLC Number: 43913171
Description: xiv, 319 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1 The commodity chain --
2 The consumption of chocolate --
3 Taxation, regulation and war --
4 The chocolate industry --
5 Commercialisation and credit --
6 Access to forested land --
7 Modes of cultivation --
8 Coerced and free labour --
Conclusion: Lessons from the past --
Appendix 1: Cocoa prices --
Appendix 2: Cocoa exports --
Appendix 3: Cocoa output in selected countries and decades --
Appendix 4: Weights, measures and currency --
Appendix 5: Maps
Responsibility: William Gervase Clarence-Smith.
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'An extremely valuable account of the world history of cocoa and chocolate in the long nineteenth century which sheds new light on a number of aspects.' ? Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Read more...

 
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