Binding: Hardcover
Description: Before 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
Title: A Local History Of Global Capital Jute And Peasant Life In The Bengal Delta
Author(s): Ali Tariq Omar
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691170237
Pages: 272 Pages, 1 B/W Illus., 11 Tables, 3 Maps
Publication Date: 5/15/2018
Series: Histories of Economic Life
Category: Economic History