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Book SynopsisA fascinating story of how palm oil has shaped our world
Trade Review'Powerfully demonstrates how, by following the history of a key commodity, we can reconstruct the logic of imperial capitalism: its destruction of land and bodies, its drive to constantly reduce the means of our reproduction, its relentless production of oppressive regimes. The story it narrates is crucial for our understanding of the terrains of struggle and the material conditions of solidarity between different social justice movements'
-- Silvia Federici
'Jampacked with insights that will surprise and haunt readers, Haiven's arguments about the centrality of palm oil to colonial history and modern life are compelling, persuasive, and far-reaching'
-- Andrew Ross, author of 'Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel'
'Whether you're reading this on a screen or a printed page, you're implicated in the global palm oil trade. In this lovely book, Max Haiven takes us on a whirlwind tour of how that came to be, guiding us through the workings of the global engines that have long been lubricated by the grease of empire'
-- Raj Patel, co-author of 'A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet'
Table of ContentsWhose grease?
Whose punishment?
Whose fetish?
Whose weapon?
Whose fat?
Whose surplus?
Whose sacrifice?
Whose story?
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