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Coolies of capitalism : assam tea and the making of coolie labour
Coolie labour was often proclaimed as a deliberate compromise straddling the regimes of the past (slave labour) and the future (free labour). In the late 1850s, the locals were replaced by labourers imported from outside the province who were designated "coolies". Qualifying this framework of transition and introduction, this study makes a case for the "production" of coolie labour in the histo…
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- 9783110463170
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- 242p. : ill
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- 331.090954 NIT c
A bowl for a coin : a commodity history of Japanese tea
A Bowl for a Coin is the first book in any language to describe and analyze the history of all Japanese teas. To understand the triumph of the tea plant in Japan, Wayne Farris begins with its cultivation and goes on to describe the myriad ways in which the herb was processed into a palatable beverage. Along the way, he traces the shift in tea's status from exotic gift item from China to its com…
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- 9780824876609
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- x, 227 p. : ill
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- 338.173720952 FAR a
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