The Envelope of Global Trade: The Political Economy and Intellectual History of Jute in the Bengal Delta, 1850s to 1950s
During the second half of the nineteenth century, peasant smallholders in the Bengal delta – an alluvial tract formed out of the silt deposits of the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna river-systems – expanded their cultivation of jute, a fibrous plant that was the world’s primary packaging material. J...
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Harvard University
2013
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| Online Access: | http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10545 http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:10364584 |