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Oil palms are ubiquitous - grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. And as Jonathan Robins shows, sweeping social transformations carried the plant around the planet.

Palm oil industry --- History.

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Palm oil industry --- Environmental aspects.

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Palm oil industry --- Igbo (African people). --- History

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Palm oil industry - Africa, West - History - 19th century.

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"Oil palms are ubiquitous--grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. And as Jonathan E. Robins shows, sweeping social transformations carried the plant around the planet. By telling the story of the oil palm across multiple centuries and continents, Robins demonstrates how the fruits of an African palm tree became a key commodity in the story of global capitalism, beginning in the eras of slavery and imperialism, persisting through decolonization, and stretching to the present day"--

Capitalism. --- Oil palm --- Palm oil industry --- Palm oil industry. --- Industrial applications. --- History --- Political aspects --- History. --- Africa. --- Southeast Asia.