Frank Uekötter 
Comparing Apples, Oranges, and Cotton 
Environmental Histories of the Global Plantation

Rise, Fall, and Permanence. Issues in the Environmental History of the Global Plantation

Frank Uekötter 7

Plantations, Agroecology, Environmental Thought, and the American South

Mart A. Stewart 27

Cotton’s Metropolis: Memphis and Plantation Development in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1920

Jeannie M. Whayne 49

Ephemeral Plantations: The Rise and Fall of Liberian Coffee,

1870-1900

Stuart Mc Cook 85

Between ‚Wild Tropics‘ and ‚Civilization‘: Guatemalan Coffee Plantations as Seen by German Immigrants

Christiane Berth 113

Divide and Cultivate: Plantations, Militarism and Environment in Portuguese Timor, 1860-1975

Chris Shepherd and Andrew Mc William 139

Pines, Pests and Fires: Large Scale Plantation Forestry in New Zealand, 1897-1955

Michael Roche 167

How Nature Works: Business, Ecology, and Rubber Plantations in Colonial Southeast Asia, 1919-1939

Michitake Aso 195

Apple Orchards in Southern Brazil: An Environmental History

Jó Klanovicz 221

Plantations and the Rise of a Society in São Tomé and Príncipe

Marina Padrão Temudo 239

Notes on Authors 261

Index 263