| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.4

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Book Review

From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000. Edited by Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. 377 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $23.95.

The editors' goal for this much-needed volume on Latin American commodity chains, From Silver to Cocaine, is to show the region's "origins and historical paths" in what is today called globalization. The book explores "the numerous and changing connections of Latin America with the rest of the world" over five centuries by exploring commodity networks between producers and consumers (pp. 8, 2). Thus twelve essays cover fourteen commodities (silver, indigo, cochineal, tobacco, coffee, sugar, cacao, bananas, guano and nitrate, rubber, henequen, and coca and cocaine), arranged chronologically of when each became important in the world economy.

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