Автор: Savage Sandra Название: The Green Years: Jute, Jam and Jiving Through Dundee ISBN: 0993133266 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780993133268 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 11650.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The year is 1962 and Elvis is King of Rock & Roll. Maisie Green and her best pal Chrissie Dalton are both sweet sixteen and ready to discover what their world, and particularly the boys in it, has to offer them.Working as Chocolate Packers in Keillers Sweet Factory in Dundee, Lizzie has secret ambitions to improve herself and her life. Not for her the lot of her fellow workers, she is going to be different. But, Maisie hasn't bargained on the complexities of finding 'the one' the man who could sweep her off her feet and change her life forever, nor for the jealous people she would meet on her way up the 'social ladder.'Chrissie on the other hand, is quite content with her lot, till a sailor comes into her life and turns it upside down, making her too long for a better life away from the local teddy boys and greyness of the housing scheme where they both live. There are many hurdles to jump over for both girls in this romantic romp through the 'swinging sixties' and their experiences of the world and the men they encounter, where two-timing and sexual tension rules, teaches them about who to love and who not to trust. Then as the year ends on Hogmany, they are both faced with the biggest decision of their lives. Will they make the right choices and find their happy ending or can an old head never fit onto young shoulders? For Maisie and Chrissie, will Hogmany find them jiving happily into 1963 or drowning their sorrows?
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 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.
Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library
DocumentID: SABCP02249800
CollectionID: CTRG97-B1936
PublicationDate: 18510101
SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America
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Collation: 86 p.; 22 cm
Автор: Mayer Brantz Название: Tah-Gah-Jute, Or, Logan and Cresap: An Historical Essay. ISBN: 1275711863 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781275711860 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 22760.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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