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Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire

Name: Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire
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ISBN: 9780745345826

Max Haiven

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'Powerful' - Silvia Federici Palm oil is a commodity like no other. Found in half of supermarket products, from food to cosmetics to plastics, it has shaped the world in which we live. In Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire, Max Haiven tells a sweeping story that touches on everything from empire to art, from war to food, and from climate change to racial capitalism. By tracing the global history of this ubiquitous elixir we see how capitalism creates surplus populations: people made dependent on capitalist wages but denied the opportunity to earn them - a proportion of humanity that is growing in our age of racialized and neo-colonial dispossession. Inspired by revolutionary writers like Eduardo Galeano, Saidiya Hartman, C.L.R. James and Rebecca Solnit, this kaleidoscopic and experimental book seeks to weave a story of the past in the present and the present in the past.

Request Code : ZLIB.IO18198886

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

Pluto Press City: London

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

0745345824

ISBN 13:

9780745345826