Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions

  • Jonathan Curry-Machado
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Part of the Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series book series (CIPCSS)

Table of contents

  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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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

19th/20th century social history transnational networks commodity history Africa Empire globalization India resistance society

Editors and affiliations

  • Jonathan Curry-Machado
    • 1
  1. 1.Institute of the AmericasUniversity College LondonUK

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283603
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave History Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-44898-2
  • Online ISBN 978-1-137-28360-3
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