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Engaging. . . These chapters are packed with fascinating detail.H-Africa Robins, whose research is so exciting that for a few weeks after reading his book I could hardly talk about anything else, documents the 'remarkable reversal' by which a crop native to Africa became one mainly produced in South-East Asia . . . admirable.--London Review of Books

Engaging. . . . These chapters are packed with fascinating detail.""--H-Africa Robins, whose research is so exciting that for a few weeks after reading his book I could hardly talk about anything else, documents the 'remarkable reversal' by which a crop native to Africa became one mainly produced in South-East Asia. . . . Admirable.""--London Review of Books Through Robins's excellent storytelling and supplementary materials, we learn about oil palm's role in almost all major events in modern world history. . . . There is plenty in this book to discover, even for someone who may consider themselves a scholar of the commodity.""--Agricultural History Review Oil Palm raises important new questions and avenues for environmental historians. . . . [and] offers a firm foundation for the future intertwining of commodity and ecology in environmental history. . . . As a work of commodity, colonial, or world history, the book excels.""--H-Environment

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Jonathan E. Robins is associate professor of history at Michigan Technological University.

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