Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions: An Introduction....Pages 1-14
Routeing the Commodities of the Empire through Sikkim (1817–1906)....Pages 15-37
Indian Pale Ale: An Icon of Empire....Pages 38-57
The Control of Port Services by International Companies in the Macaronesian Islands (1850–1914)....Pages 58-76
Of Stocks and Barter: John Holt and the Kongo Rubber Trade, 1906–1910....Pages 77-99
Coercion and Resistance in the Colonial Market: Cotton in Britain’s African Empire....Pages 100-120
A Periodisation of Globalisation According to the Mauritian Integration into the International Sugar Commodity Chain (1825–2005)....Pages 121-142
In Cane’s Shadow: Commodity Plantations and the Local Agrarian Economy on Cuba’s Mid-nineteenth-Century Sugar Frontier....Pages 143-167
Cuban Popular Resistance to the 1953 London Sugar Agreement....Pages 168-185
Tobacco Growers, Resistance and Accommodation to American Domination in Puerto Rico, 1899–1940....Pages 186-203
The Battle for Rubber in the Second World War: Cooperation and Resistance....Pages 204-223
Beyond ‘Exotic Groceries’: Tapioca/Cassava/Manioc, a Hidden Commodity of Empires and Globalisation....Pages 224-247
El Habano: The Global Luxury Smoke....Pages 248-276
Back Matter....Pages 277-286