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