Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions

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Springer, Jul 12, 2013 - History - 286 pages
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.
 

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List ofIllustrations
Introduction Jonathan CurryMachado
Cuban
Routeing the Commodities of the Empire throughSikkim
An Icon of Empire
The Control of Port Services by International Companies
John Holt and the Kongo Rubber
Cotton
Britains African Empire Jonathan E Robins 6 A Periodisation ofGlobalisation According to the Mauritian Integration into the International Sugar Co...
Commodity Plantations and the Local
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TheGlobal Luxury Smoke
Index
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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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