Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions

1. Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions: An Introduction
Jonathan Curry-Machado

2. Routeing the Commodities of the Empire through Sikkim (1817–1906)
Vibha Arora

3. Indian Pale Ale: An Icon of Empire
Alan Pryor

4. The Control of Port Services by International Companies in the Macaronesian Islands (1850–1914)
Miguel Suárez Bosa

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

6. Coercion and Resistance in the Colonial Market: Cotton in Britain’s African Empire
Jonathan E. Robins

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

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

9. Cuban Popular Resistance to the 1953 London Sugar Agreement
Steve Cushion

10. Tobacco Growers, Resistance and Accommodation to American Domination in Puerto Rico, 1899–1940
Teresita A. Levy

11. The Battle for Rubber in the Second World War: Cooperation and Resistance
William G. Clarence-Smith

12. Beyond ‘Exotic Groceries’: Tapioca/Cassava/Manioc, a Hidden Commodity of Empires and Globalisation
Kaori O’Connor

13. El Habano: The Global Luxury Smoke
Jean Stubbs

Avainsanat: History, Social History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Asian History, History of the Americas, African History