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Enterprise and Society Advance Access published online on May 28, 2007
Enterprise and Society, doi:10.1093/es/khm033
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference.

Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal and Zephyr Franks, eds. From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2006. 377 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3766-5, $23.95 (paper).

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Commodities have received significant scholarly and popular attention recently. But, unlike past commodity studies which focused on production or distribution, recent works are hybrids of history, economics, social geography, material culture, and cultural studies that ask where goods traveled, how they moved, in what quantities, who wanted them and, most elusive of all, why they were desirable. Relieved of their roles as mere economic cargoes or anthropological artifacts, commodities have gained a new lease on life where, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Michelle Craig McDonald

Richard Stockton College


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