Routledge Economic History of Natural Resources

Madeleine Dungy is Associate Professor of History at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She studied history at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Oxford, and Harvard University. Her research examines the history of international institutions in the fields of trade, natural resources, and migration, with a particular focus on relations between public and private actors. She currently leads a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant that traces the development of early European policies on free movement in the 1960s and 1970s and their impact on migration politics at the national level. Her work combines legal, political, and economic history.Espen Storli is Professor of History at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He studied history at the universities of Stavanger, Bergen, and NTNU, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Business School. His research interests are mainly found at the intersection between business and politics, with a special interest in the development of international business in the 20th Century. He has published extensively on the economic history of different natural resources, on political regulation, intra-industry cooperation, and on the history of commodity traders. Audrey Gerrard is a researcher in History in the College of Human Sciences and Culture at Flinders University. Her research examines intersections of business, law, and environment in the imperial and decolonising spaces of the Pacific region. She received her PhD from the University of Tasmania in 2019. Her thesis interrogated the relationship between business and religion in the formative legal spaces of nineteenth-century Tahiti and Hawaii. Audrey has expanded her passion for remote and unorthodox archives into researching twentieth-century global governance and has held research fellowships for projects on histories international institutions and natural resource political economy at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Leiden University.

• 1 Introduction. Part I – Approaches to the Economic History of Natural Resources: 2 Natural Resources in Economic Thought from Adam Smith to Today; 3 The Natural Resource Curse: A Quantitative Economic History Approach; 4 Global Justice and Distributional Conflicts over Resources; 5 Labour History and the Economics of Natural Resources; 6 Natural resources and Historical Demography; 7 Natural Resources and Political Economy; 8 Natural Resources and Business History; 9 The Environmental History of Natural Resources. Part II – Commodity Sectors: 10 Agriculture; 11 Fisheries and Fishing; 12 Livestock Farming and Hunting; 13 Forestry; 14 Mining; 15 Petroleum; 16 Water. Part III – The Construction of Global Commodity Markets: 17 Financing Natural Resource Extraction and Production; 18 The Value of Nature: The Historical Development of Price-setting Mechanisms in Resource Markets; 19 Resources, Risk, and Recourse: A History of Insuring Fossil Fuels; 20 Waste as a Resource; 21 The Logistics of Natural Resources; 22 State Trading in Natural Resources: The Case of the Soviet-led Comecon System, 1949-1991; 23 Multinationals and Natural Resources. Part IV – The International Political Economy of Natural Resources: 24 Natural Resources and the Economics of Empire: The Case of Coffee Production in Colonial India; 25 Regulation of Property Rights for Natural Resources; 26 Natural Resources and War; 27 Beyond Independence: Decolonizing Natural Resource Management in Africa; 28 The Natural Resource-Conflict Nexus: Examining the Role of Natural Resource Endowment in Anti-Colonial Struggles. Part V – Natural Resources and the Rise of International Governance: 29 Business Associations and International Resource Governance; 30 Cartels and Commodity Agreements; 31 Ruling the Natural World: The Historical Political Economy of Standards and Natural Resources; 32 Permanent Sovereignty Over Natural Resources – Human Rights, Resource Access, and Economic History of Natural Resources; 33 The Deep Oceans and Antarctica: Mineral Resources from Outside State Jurisdiction as Common Heritage. Part VI – Natural Resources and Societal Development: 34 Race and Natural Resources; 35 Indigeneity and Natural Resources: The Case of 'Authentic African Experiences' in Informal Indigenous Plant Nurseries in Southern Africa; 36 Women in Mining: A Global Study of the Past Two Centuries; 37 In the Service of Resources: Extractive Company Towns Across Twentieth-Century Political Regimes; 38 Knowledge and Technology Transfer in Natural Resources; 39 The Political Economy of Energy Transitions, Past and Present. Index.