Commodities Online Biography
mmodities Online BiographyI have read a lot of what I call "commodity biographies," histories written around particular commodities. Many of them fall flat because they fail to analyze their competitor contexts. Therefore, I wanted to help out by making this page to help others understand the contention between different commodities for the same types of consumptive uses in history. This list will be useful as a clearinghouse for finding other commodity biographies that compete with each other politically and economically for dominance for the same consumptive position. Instead of analyzing merely one commodity, like many commodity biographies do, in this way you can keep in mind a commodity use's politics and competition with other commodities in history. I think that would be a much more realistic way to write many of these commodity biographies. Commodities instead of being just 'there' could be seen as the strategic and political human choices they are--instead of neutral or abstract. This historiographic idea brings up how different political choices of commodities at different times or places in history have different social and political effects. When you look at a commodity as a strategic choice as I do, you can really plumb very clearly the human political choices or knowledges at a particular historical moment.
mmodities Online BiographyI have read a lot of what I call "commodity biographies," histories written around particular commodities. Many of them fall flat because they fail to analyze their competitor contexts. Therefore, I wanted to help out by making this page to help others understand the contention between different commodities for the same types of consumptive uses in history. This list will be useful as a clearinghouse for finding other commodity biographies that compete with each other politically and economically for dominance for the same consumptive position. Instead of analyzing merely one commodity, like many commodity biographies do, in this way you can keep in mind a commodity use's politics and competition with other commodities in history. I think that would be a much more realistic way to write many of these commodity biographies. Commodities instead of being just 'there' could be seen as the strategic and political human choices they are--instead of neutral or abstract. This historiographic idea brings up how different political choices of commodities at different times or places in history have different social and political effects. When you look at a commodity as a strategic choice as I do, you can really plumb very clearly the human political choices or knowledges at a particular historical moment.
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