Agriculture and Rural Connections in the Pacific

In: The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900 v.13

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- General Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE - DISPERSION AND DIFFUSION OF SEEDS AND FOOD PLANTS -- 1 The Introduction of American Food Plants into China -- 2 American Food Plants in China -- 3 The Early Impact of Japan upon American Agriculture -- 4 Early Coconut Culture in Western Mexico -- 5 The Peripatetic Chili Pepper: Diffusion of the Domesticated Capsicums since Columbus -- 6 Diplomats and Plant Collectors: The South American Commission, 1817-1818 -- PART TWO - SYSTEMS OF PRODUCTION AND THE IMPACT OF THE SPANISH CONQUEST -- 7 Agricultural Biodiversity and Peasant Rights to Subsistence in the Central Andes during Inca Rule -- 8 Landscapes of Cultivation in Mesoamerica on the Eve of the Conquest -- 9 Chinese Plantation Workers and Social Conflict in Peru in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 10 Free Versus Compulsory Labor: Mexico and the Philippines 1540-1648 -- PART THREE - MIGRATION OF RURAL PEOPLE ACROSS THE REGION -- 11 Chinese Settlements in Rural Southwest Asia: Unwritten Histories -- 12 Hawaiian Labor and Immigration Problems before Annexation -- 13 Socioeconomic Origins of Emigration: Guangdong to California, 1850-1882 -- 14 Chinese Livelihood in Rural California: The Impact of Economic Change, 1860-1880 -- 15 History of Japanese Migration to Peru, Part I -- PART FOUR - INTEGRATION OF MARKETS AND THE STIMULUS TO AGRICULTURE -- 16 Supply and Transportation for the Potosí Mines, 1545-1640 -- 17 The Poetics of American Agriculture: The United States Rice Industry in International Perspective -- 18 Gold Rushes and the Trans-Pacific Wheat Trade: California and Australia, 1848-1857 -- 19 The Passage to India Revisited: Asian Trade and the Development of the Far West, 1850-1900 -- Index