Chapter 1 Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions: An Introduction

Chapter 2 Routeing the Commodities of the Empire through Sikkim (1817–1906)

Chapter 3 Indian Pale Ale: An Icon of Empire

Chapter 4 The Control of Port Services by International Companies in the Macaronesian Islands (1850–1914)

Chapter 5 Of Stocks and Barter: John Holt and the Kongo Rubber Trade, 1906–1910

Chapter 6 Coercion and Resistance in the Colonial Market: Cotton in Britain’s African Empire

Chapter 7 A Periodisation of Globalisation According to the Mauritian Integration into the International Sugar Commodity Chain (1825–2005)

Chapter 8 In Cane’s Shadow: Commodity Plantations and the Local Agrarian Economy on Cuba’s Mid-nineteenth-Century Sugar Frontier

Chapter 10 Tobacco Growers, Resistance and Accommodation to American Domination in Puerto Rico, 1899–1940

Chapter 11 The Battle for Rubber in the Second World War: Cooperation and Resistance

Chapter 12 Beyond ‘Exotic Groceries’: Tapioca/Cassava/Manioc, a Hidden Commodity of Empires and Globalisation

Chapter 13 El Habano : The Global Luxury Smoke