The Oxford Handbook of Commodity History

Jonathan Curry-Machado is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London; Jean Stubbs is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London; William Gervase Clarence-Smith is an Emeritus Professor of History at SOAS University of London; Dr Jelmer Vos is a Lecturer in Global History at the University of Glasgow

The Oxford Handbook of Commodity History

Introduction, by Jonathan Curry-Machado and Jean Stubbs

Part I: Approaches
1. 'Commodity Chains: Analytical Advantages and Challenges Applied to Coffee'
Paul S. Ciccantell, David A. Smith, and Steven C. Topik
2. 'Approches Filières and Commodity Chains: Comparative Approaches in the Study of Cocoa'
François Ruf, Franziska Ollendorf, and Enrique Uribe Leitz
3. 'Anti-Commodities Revisited: Food, Culture, and Resistance'
Sandip Hazareesingh and Harro Maat
4. 'Commodity Frontiers: Linking Global Commodities and Local Resilience'
Ulbe Bosma and Eric Vanhaute

Part II: Global Histories
5. 'Early Modern Commodity Routes: Ottoman Silks in the Webs of World Trade'
Suraiya Faroqhi
6. 'Port Cities and Commodities: Luanda in the Early Modern Period'
Cátia Antunes and Jelmer Vos
7. 'Commodities Shaping a New Imperial History: Tobacco and the Iberian Empires'
Santiago de Luxán Meléndez, João Figueirôa-Rêgo, Vicente Sanz Rozalén, and Jean Stubbs
8. 'Futures Trading and German Agricultural Markets'
Alexander Engel
9. 'Commodities Across the Socialist World'
Anne Dietrich

Part III: Methods of Production
10. 'Mining Frontiers and the Making of the Modern World'
Leonardo Marques
11. 'Towards a Technological History of Global Commodities'
David Pretel
12. 'Plantations and Commodities: Indigo in Colonial India'
Ghulam A. Nadri
13. 'Primary Commodities and Industrial Consumers: The Case of Palm Oil'
Jonathan E. Robins

Part IV: People and Land
14. 'Migration, Slavery, and Commodification'
Michael Zeuske
15. 'Labour as a Commodity: The Case of Rough Diamond Mining'
Karin Hofmeester
16. 'Land-Rights Commodification: Communal Land Control and Rural Conflict in Bolivia'
Hanne Cottyn
17. 'Circuits of Knowledge of Tropical Commodities'
Leida Fernández-Prieto

Part V: Environments
18. 'Territorial Mapping and the Formation of Frontier Zones: The Trucial States (1930s-1950s)'
Sabrina Joseph
19. 'Land Use and Commodities: Amazonian Cocoa Production'
Rafael Chambouleyron, Luly Fischer, and Karl Heinz Arenz
20. 'Commodities, Trade, and Ecological Transformation in the Modern World'
Corey Ross
21. 'Commodities, Carbon, and Climate'
John L. Brooke, Eric Herschthal, and Jed Kaplan

Part VI: Commodities and Consumption
22. 'Animals as Commodities: The Case of the Pacific Fur Seal'
Helen Cowie
23. 'Producing Drug Histories: Conquest and Commerce, Culture and Control'
Joyce A. Madancy
24. 'Culinary Commodities: Global Foods, People, and Cuisines'
Elizabeth Zanoni
25. 'Historical Archaeologies of Commodities: Race and Consumer Culture in the United States'
Paul R. Mullins

Part VI: Methodologies
26. 'Seeing Things: The Visual Life of Commodities'
Anna Arabindan-Kesson
27. 'Computational Methods for the History of Commodities as Illustrated by Apple Pie Recipes'
Marieke van Erp and Ulbe Bosma
28. 'Mapping Commodity Histories: Historical GIS and Canadian Forest Products'
Jim Clifford, Joshua MacFadyen, and Stéphane Castonguay
29. 'Commodities, Interdisciplinarity, and Historical GIS: Early Modern Maritime Routes and Timber Supply'
Ana Crespo Solana

Conclusion, by William Gervase Clarence-Smith and Jelmer Vos
Index