RT Journal Article
T1 United by grass, separated by coal: Uruguay and New Zealand during the First Globalization
A1 Travieso Barrios, Emiliano
AB While the role of coal has been the subject of long-running debate in the historiography of the IndustrialRevolution, its part in the economic development of the global periphery has been comparatively neglected.The technological context of the ‘First Globalization’ (c.1870–1914) made pastoral production in theperiphery increasingly dependent on modern energy, as new methods of production and transportationbridged the distance between grasslands in the south of the world and kitchens in the north. By comparingchoices of meat preservation techniques in Uruguay and New Zealand – two small settler economies thatprospered on the back of pastoral exports – this article highlights the usefulness of an energy perspective onagriculture-based transitions to modern economic growth. Different conditions of access to coal shapedhow New Zealanders and Uruguayans exploited their livestock herds when terms of trade favoured themthe most, with important consequences for the persisting income gap between them.
PB Cambridge University Press (CUP)
SN 1740-0228
YR 2020
FD 2020-07-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/35772
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/35772
LA eng
DS e-Archivo
RD 1 sept. 2024