The social marketplace for new and used books.

Get started

Learn to sell
Learn to buy
Buy textbooks
Sign up
Buy a giftcard
For the authors

Support

Help
Track a shipment
Terms of use
Privacy policy
Cookies policy

Company

About us
Work with us
Give feedback
Categories

Contact us

Fast delivery with

Safe payments by

Visa
Mastercard
Vipps
Klarna

© 2026 Bookis AS

English

The Banana Tree at the Gate : A History of Marginal Peoples and Global Markets in Borneo

Paperback • 2011 • English

The Banana Tree at the Gate : A History of Marginal Peoples and Global Markets in Borneo

By Michael R. Dove

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌

About the book

The "Hikayat Banjar," a native court chronicle from Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as "the banana tree at the gate." Michael R. Dove employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of resource relations between the indigenous peoples of Borneo and the world system. In analyzing production and trade in forest products, pepper, and especially natural rubber, Dove shows that the involvement of Borneo's native peoples in commodity produc...Show more

Book details

ISBN

9780300153217

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

The Banana Tree at the Gate : A History of Marginal Peoples and Global Markets in Borneo

Format

Paperback

Shippping and returns

Shipping

Used books are shipped by the seller. Expected delivery after package is sent is 2-4 days.

Returns

Contact the seller after delivery.

Reviews · 0

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

You might also like

Power and plenty

Power and plenty

Ronald Findlay

Decolonizing Extinction

Decolonizing Extinction

Juno Salazar Parrenas

The world until yesterday

The world until yesterday

Jared Diamond

The social life of things

The social life of things

Arjun Appadurai

The Gebusi

The Gebusi

Bruce Knauft

Dispossession and the Environment

Dispossession and the Environment

Paige West

The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots

The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots

Keir Martin

Mining Capitalism

Mining Capitalism

Stuart Kirsch

Argonauts of the Western Pacific

Argonauts of the Western Pacific

Bronislaw Malinowski

Bananas, Beaches and Bases

Bananas, Beaches and Bases

Cynthia Enloe

Pacific Worlds A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures

Pacific Worlds A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures

Matt K. Matsuda

ORANG PENDEK: Sumatra's Forgotten Ape

ORANG PENDEK: Sumatra's Forgotten Ape

Richard Freeman

The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny and Globalizations Rough Landscape

The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny and Globalizations Rough Landscape

Harm De Blij

How bad are bananas?

How bad are bananas?

The Plundered Planet

The Plundered Planet

Paul Collier

lobalisation, Human Rights and Labour Law in Pacific Asia

lobalisation, Human Rights and Labour Law in Pacific Asia

Anthony Woodiwiss

Taking Southeast Asia to Market: Commodities, Nature, and People in the Neoliberal Age

Taking Southeast Asia to Market: Commodities, Nature, and People in the Neoliberal Age

Joseph Nevins, Nancy Lee Peluso

The Bottom Billion

The Bottom Billion

Paul Collier

New Green History of the World

New Green History of the World

Clive Ponting

COBSERVATION IS OUR GOVERNMENT NOW

COBSERVATION IS OUR GOVERNMENT NOW

Paige West

Friction An Ethnography of Global Connection

Friction An Ethnography of Global Connection

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

A History of Thailand

A History of Thailand

Chris Baker

The intimate economies of Bangkok

The intimate economies of Bangkok

Wilson, Ara

The Human Web. A Bird's-Eye View of World His…

The Human Web. A Bird's-Eye View of World His…

Woodworker's Journal (COR)

Indigenous Peoples Resource Management and Global Rights

Indigenous Peoples Resource Management and Global Rights

Svein Jentoft

Taming Globalization Frontiers of Governance

Taming Globalization Frontiers of Governance

David Held

Globalisation

Globalisation

Thomas Hylland

The Banana wars

The Banana wars

Lester D.

The Origins of the Modern World

The Origins of the Modern World

Marks, Robert

The New Rulers of the World

The New Rulers of the World

John Pilger

Stolen Harvest

Stolen Harvest

Vandana Shiva

Contested Belonging An Indigenous People's Struggle for Forest and Identity in Sub-Himalayan Bengal

Contested Belonging An Indigenous People's Struggle for Forest and Identity in Sub-Himalayan Bengal

B. G. Karlsson

Social Change in Melanesia Development and History

Social Change in Melanesia Development and History

Paul Sillitoe

Balinese Worlds

Balinese Worlds

Fredrik Barth

Custom and Confrontation: The Kwaio Struggle for Cultural Autonomy

Custom and Confrontation: The Kwaio Struggle for Cultural Autonomy

Roger M. Keesing

Managing Turbulent Hearts A Balinese Formula for Living

Managing Turbulent Hearts A Balinese Formula for Living

Unni Wikan

Sweetness and power

Sweetness and power

Sidney Kwestel

The Forest People

The Forest People

Colin Turnbull

Agricultural Involution

Agricultural Involution

Clifford Geertz