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Ulbe Bosma - Il mondo dello zucchero  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Karabas91 at Feb. 27, 2024
Ulbe Bosma - Il mondo dello zucchero

Ulbe Bosma - Il mondo dello zucchero
Italiano | 2024 | 536 pages | ISBN: 8806260855 | EPUB | 8,3 MB

Rovesciare una bustina di zucchero nel caffè è un gesto tanto comune da essere quasi invisibile. Eppure non c'è niente di scontato nella straordinaria ascesa dello zucchero: la sua è una storia d'ingegno e potenza che nasconde un lato oscuro fatto di sfruttamento, razzismo e distruzione ambientale. «Bosma ha preso un minuscolo cristallo di zucchero e ne ha fatto un prisma attraverso cui osservare e capire il mondo in cui viviamo» («Los Angeles Review of Books»). Prendere una bustina di zucchero e rovesciarla nel caffè è un gesto quotidiano, naturale, lo facciamo più volte al giorno, senza dargli alcun peso. Eppure lo zucchero bianco da tavola ancora fino a duecento anni fa era un bene di lusso, perché in realtà è tutt'altro che un elemento naturale: ci vogliono creatività e pazienza per arrivare ad estrarlo dalla molecola vegetale e poi un ulteriore sforzo per raffinarlo..
The Making of a Periphery: How Island Southeast Asia Became a Mass Exporter of Labor

The Making of a Periphery: How Island Southeast Asia Became a Mass Exporter of Labor (Columbia Studies in International and Global History) by Ulbe Bosma
English | July 30th, 2019 | ISBN: 0231188528 | 320 pages | EPUB | 15.57 MB

Island Southeast Asia was once a thriving region with products that found eager consumers from China to Europe. Today, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia are primarily exporters of their surplus of cheap labor, with more than ten million emigrants from the region working all over the world. How did a prosperous region become a peripheral one?
Post-colonial Immigrants and Identity Formations in the Netherlands (Amsterdam University Press - IMISCOE Research)

Post-colonial Immigrants and Identity Formations in the Netherlands (Amsterdam University Press - IMISCOE Research) by Ulbe Bosma
English | Aug. 15, 2013 | ISBN: 9089644547 | 252 Pages | PDF | 2 MB

In this book Ulbe Bosma explores the experience of immigrants in the Netherlands over sixty years and three generations. Looking at migrants from all countries, Bosma teases out how their ethnic identities are informed by Dutch culture, and how these immigrant identities evolve over time.
The World of Sugar : How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years

The World of Sugar
by Bosma, Ulbe;

English | 2023 | ISBN: 0674279395 | 465 pages | True PDF | 39.26 MB

Commodities, Ports and Asian Maritime Trade Since 1750  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by step778 at Nov. 9, 2021
Commodities, Ports and Asian Maritime Trade Since 1750

Anthony Webster, Ulbe Bosma, Jaime de Melo, "Commodities, Ports and Asian Maritime Trade Since 1750"
English | 2017 | pages: 334 | ISBN: 1349556521, 1137463910 | PDF | 2,1 mb
The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years

The World of Sugar
by Ulbe Bosma

English | 2023 | ISBN: ‎ 0674279395 | 455 pages | True EPUB | 45.17 MB
Women, Work and Colonialism in the Netherlands and Java: Comparisons, Contrasts, and Connections, 1830–1940

Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, "Women, Work and Colonialism in the Netherlands and Java: Comparisons, Contrasts, and Connections, 1830–1940 "
English | ISBN: 303010527X | 2019 | 283 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 7 MB
Women, Work and Colonialism in the Netherlands and Java: Comparisons, Contrasts, and Connections, 1830–1940

Women, Work and Colonialism in the Netherlands and Java: Comparisons, Contrasts, and Connections, 1830–1940 by Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
English | PDF,EPUB | 2019 | 300 Pages | ISBN : 303010527X | 9.6 MB

‘This book makes an important contribution to the history of household labour relations in two contrasting societies. It deserves a wide readership.’
Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics: Europe, Russia, Japan and the United States in Comparison

Ulbe Bosma, "Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics: Europe, Russia, Japan and the United States in Comparison "
English | ISBN: 0857453270 | 2012 | 278 pages | PDF | 905 KB