Cover	1
	Half-Title	2
	Series	3
	Title	4
	Copyright	5
	Contents	6
	List of Illustrations	8
	Preface and Acknowledgements	9
	Notes on Contributors	12
	Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions: An Introduction	16
	1 Routeing the Commodities of the Empire through Sikkim (1817–1906)	30
	2 Indian Pale Ale: An Icon of Empire	53
	3 The Control of Port Services by International Companies in the Macaronesian Islands (1850–1914)	73
	4 Of Stocks and Barter: John Holt and the Kongo Rubber Trade, 1906–1910	92
	5 Coercion and Resistance in the Colonial Market: Cotton in Britain’s African Empire	115
	6 A Periodisation of Globalisation According to the Mauritian Integration into the International Sugar Commodity Chain (1825–2005)	136
	7 In Cane’s Shadow: Commodity Plantations and the Local Agrarian Economy on Cuba’s Mid-nineteenth-Century Sugar Frontier	158
	8 Cuban Popular Resistance to the 1953 London Sugar Agreement	183
	9 Tobacco Growers, Resistance and Accommodation to American Domination in Puerto Rico, 1899–1940	201
	10 The Battle for Rubber in the Second World War: Cooperation and Resistance	219
	11 Beyond ‘Exotic Groceries’: Tapioca/Cassava/Manioc, a Hidden Commodity of Empires and Globalisation	239
	12 El Habano: The Global Luxury Smoke	263
	Index	292