Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions (eBook)

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

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