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Commodities provide a lens through which local and global histories can be understood and written. The study of commodity history follows these goods as they make their way from land and water through processing and trade to eventual consumption. It is a fast-developing field with collaborative, comparative, and interdisciplinary research, and with new information technologies becoming increasingly important. Although many individual researchers continue to focus on particular commodities and regions, they often do so in partnership with others working on different areas and employing a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, placing commodities history at the forefront of local and global historical analysis.
This Oxford Handbook features contributions from scholars involved in these developments across a range of countries and linguistic regions. They discuss the state of the art in their fields, draw on their own work, and signal lacunae for future research. Each of the volume's thirty-one chapters focuses on an important thematic area within commodities history: essential approaches, global histories, modes of production, people and land, environmental impact, consumption, and new methodologies. The Oxford Handbook of Commodity History offers insight into the directions in which commodity history is heading, and the multiple ways in which it can contribute to a better understanding of the world.
* Highlights established and emerging historiographical and methodological approaches.
* Contents organized thematically, featuring a global spread of historical case studies and examples.
* Contributions from an international roster of historians, whose specialties range from early modern to contemporary times.
Introduction / Jonathan Curry-Machado and Jean Stubbs
Part I: Approaches
Commodity Chains: Analytical Advantages and Challenges Applied to Coffee / Paul S. Ciccantell, David A. Smith, and Steven C. Topik
Approches Filières and Commodity Chains: Comparative Approaches in the Study of Cocoa / François Ruf, Franziska Ollendorf, and Enrique Uribe Leitz
Anti-Commodities Revisited: Food, Culture, and Resistance / Sandip Hazareesingh and Harro Maat
Commodity Frontiers: Linking Global Commodities and Local Resilience / Ulbe Bosma and Eric Vanhaute
Part II: Global Histories
Early Modern Commodity Routes: Ottoman Silks in the Webs of World Trade / Suraiya Faroqhi
Port Cities and Commodities: Luanda in the Early Modern Period / Cátia Antunes and Jelmer Vos
Commodities Shaping a New Imperial History: Tobacco and the Iberian Empires / Santiago de Luxán Meléndez, João Figueirôa-Rêgo, Vicente Sanz Rozalén, and Jean Stubbs
Futures Trading and German Agricultural Markets / Alexander Engel
Commodities Across the Socialist World / Anne Dietrich
Part III: Methods of Production
Mining Frontiers and the Making of the Modern World / Leonardo Marques
Towards a Technological History of Global Commodities / David Pretel
Plantations and Commodities: Indigo in Colonial India / Ghulam A. Nadri
Primary Commodities and Industrial Consumers: The Case of Palm Oil / Jonathan E. Robins
Part IV: People and Land
Migration, Slavery, and Commodification / Michael Zeuske
Labour as a Commodity: The Case of Rough Diamond Mining / Karin Hofmeester
Land-Rights Commodification: Communal Land Control and Rural Conflict in Bolivia / Hanne Cottyn
Circuits of Knowledge of Tropical Commodities / Leida Fernández-Prieto
Part V: Environments
Territorial Mapping and the Formation of Frontier Zones: The Trucial States (1930s-1950s) / Sabrina Joseph
Land Use and Commodities: Amazonian Cocoa Production / Rafael Chambouleyron, Luly Fischer, and Karl Heinz Arenz
Commodities, Trade, and Ecological Transformation in the Modern World / Corey Ross
Commodities, Carbon, and Climate / John L. Brooke, Eric Herschthal, and Jed Kaplan
Part VI: Commodities and Consumption
Animals as Commodities: The Case of the Pacific Fur Seal / Helen Cowie
Producing Drug Histories: Conquest and Commerce, Culture and Control / Joyce A. Madancy
Culinary Commodities: Global Foods, People, and Cuisines / Elizabeth Zanoni
Historical Archaeologies of Commodities: Race and Consumer Culture in the United States / Paul R. Mullins
Part VI: Methodologies
Seeing Things: The Visual Life of Commodities / Anna Arabindan-Kesson
Computational Methods for the History of Commodities as Illustrated by Apple Pie Recipes / Marieke van Erp and Ulbe Bosma
Mapping Commodity Histories: Historical GIS and Canadian Forest Products / Jim Clifford, Joshua MacFadyen, and Stéphane Castonguay
Commodities, Interdisciplinarity, and Historical GIS: Early Modern Maritime Routes and Timber Supply / Ana Crespo Solana
Conclusion / William Gervase Clarence-Smith and Jelmer Vos