A local history of global capital : jute and peasant life in the Bengal Delta /
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...
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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
c2018.
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| Collection: | Histories of economic life
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