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 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 9 Cuban Popular Resistance to the 1953 London Sugar Agreement

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