Research journeys
There is currently happening much exciting historical research about commodities and their related worlds, and this section provides samples of this research as narrated by the authors themselves.
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Cassava Spirit and the Seed of History: The biocultural history of a staple crop in Amazonian GuyanaLewis Daly on the biocultural history of a staple crop in Amazonian Guyana
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British visions of sugar-based industrialisation in the Caribbean.Sabine Clarke on sugar, science and development in the British Caribbean in the 1940s.
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Asbestos CommunitiesJessica van Horssen speaks about the international and local dimensions of asbestos production.
- Media typesTestimonies of a Dispossessed Culture
Katerina Teaiwa on the human and ecological catastrophes of phosphate mining on Banaba Island
- Media typesExploring the historical geography of the Nilgiri cinchona plantations
Lucy Veale explores the historical geography of the Nilgiri plantations in colonial south India.
- Media typesCopper Ore: An Unlikely Global Commodity
Chris Evans and Olivia Saunders on the global significance of Welsh copper during the nineteenth century.
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Kaori O'Connor describes anthropological approaches to commodities.
- Media typesThe Everyday Lives of Ancient Colombians
Interview with Elisenda Vila Llonch, curator of "Beyond El Dorado"
- Media typesPeanuts and economic dependence in French West Africa
Daniel Castillo Hidalgo on peanut production and colonial rule in Senegal.
- Media typesDisembodied Birds
Natalie Lawrence on how sixteenth century Europeans made knowledge about Dodos and Birds of Paradise.