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Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on Currency and Orthography -- Introduction to the English-Language Edition -- Foreword to the Brazilian Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE Slaves and Masters on Sugar Plantations in the Last Decades of Slavery -- TWO Tension and Conflict on a Recôncavo Sugar Plantation -- THREE Crossroads of Slavery and Freedom, 1880-1888 -- FOUR May 13, 1888, and Its Immediate Aftermath -- FIVE Heads Spinning with Freedom -- SIX After Abolition: Tension and Conflict on Recôncavo Sugar Plantations -- SEVEN Trajectories of Slaves and Freed People on Recôncavo Sugar Plantations -- EIGHT Community and Family Life among Freed People -- NINE Other Post-emancipation Itineraries -- Epilogue In the Centuries to Come: Projections of Slavery and Freedom -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

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