4 Colonial Tobacco: Key Commodity of the Spanish Empire, 1500–1800

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. Commodity Chains in Theory and in Latin American History 1
4. 1 The Spanish-American Silver Peso: Export Commodity and Global Money of the Ancien Regime, 1550–1800 25
5. 2 Indigo Commodity Chains in the Spanish and British Empires, 1560–1860 53
6. 3 Mexican Cochineal and the European Demand for American Dyes, 1550–1850 76
7. 4 Colonial Tobacco: Key Commodity of the Spanish Empire, 1500–1800 93
8. 5 The Latin American Coffee Commodity Chain: Brazil and Costa Rica 118
9. 6 Trade Regimes and the International Sugar Market, 1850–1980: Protectionism, Subsidies, and Regulation 147
10. 7 The Local and the Global: Internal and External Factors in the Development of Bahia’s Cacao Sector 174
11. 8 Banana Boats and Baby Food: The Banana in U.S. History 204
12. 9 The Fertilizer Commodity Chains: Guano and Nitrate, 1840–1930 228
13. 10 Brazil in the International Rubber Trade, 1870–1930 271
14. 11 Reports of Its Demise Are Not Exaggerated: The Life and Times of Yucatecan Henequen 300
15. 12 Cocaine in Chains: The Rise and Demise of a Global Commodity, 1860–1950 321
16. Conclusion Commodity Chains and Globalization in Historical Perspective 352
17. Contributors 361
18. Index 365