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Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions

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Editors:
  1. Jonathan Curry-Machado

    1. Institute of the Americas, University College London, UK

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Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions: An Introduction

    • Jonathan Curry-Machado
    Pages 1-14

  3. Routeing the Commodities of the Empire through Sikkim (1817–1906)

    • Vibha Arora
    Pages 15-37

  4. Indian Pale Ale: An Icon of Empire

    • Alan Pryor
    Pages 38-57

  5. The Control of Port Services by International Companies in the Macaronesian Islands (1850–1914)

    • Miguel Suárez Bosa
    Pages 58-76

  6. Of Stocks and Barter: John Holt and the Kongo Rubber Trade, 1906–1910

    • Jelmer Vos
    Pages 77-99

  7. Coercion and Resistance in the Colonial Market: Cotton in Britain’s African Empire

    • Jonathan E. Robins
    Pages 100-120

  8. A Periodisation of Globalisation According to the Mauritian Integration into the International Sugar Commodity Chain (1825–2005)

    • Patrick Neveling
    Pages 121-142

  9. In Cane’s Shadow: Commodity Plantations and the Local Agrarian Economy on Cuba’s Mid-nineteenth-Century Sugar Frontier

    • Jonathan Curry-Machado
    Pages 143-167

  10. Cuban Popular Resistance to the 1953 London Sugar Agreement

    • Steve Cushion
    Pages 168-185

  11. Tobacco Growers, Resistance and Accommodation to American Domination in Puerto Rico, 1899–1940

    • Teresita A. Levy
    Pages 186-203

  12. The Battle for Rubber in the Second World War: Cooperation and Resistance

    • William G. Clarence-Smith
    Pages 204-223

  13. Beyond ‘Exotic Groceries’: Tapioca/Cassava/Manioc, a Hidden Commodity of Empires and Globalisation

    • Kaori O’Connor
    Pages 224-247

  14. El Habano: The Global Luxury Smoke

    • Jean Stubbs
    Pages 248-276

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 277-286
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The papers presented in this collection offer a wide range of cases, from Asia, Africa and the Americas, and broadly cover the last two centuries, in which commodities have led to the consolidation of a globalised economy and society – forging this out of distinctive local experiences of cultivation and production, and regional circuits of trade.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of the Americas, University College London, UK

    Jonathan Curry-Machado

About the editor

Vibha Arora, Associate Professor, the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India William Gervase Clarence-Smith, Professor, the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK Steve Cushion, Secretary, the University and Colleges Union (UCU), UK Teresita A. Levy, Assistant Professor, Lehman College, City University of New York, USA Patrick Neveling, Researcher, Historical Institute of the University of Berne, Switzerland Kaori O'Connor, Senior Research Fellow, University College London (UCL), UK Alan Pryor, Doctorate, University of Essex, UK Jonathan Robins, Assistant Professor, Michigan Technological University, USA Jean Stubbs, Professor Emerita, London Metropolitan University, UK Miguel Suárez Bosa, Professor, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) Jelmer Vos, Assistant Professor, Old Dominion University, USA

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