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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Media typesCotton’s global significance through the agesSandip Hazareesingh interviews eminent textile historian Giorgio Riello.
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Media typesThe sugar industries of Cuba and JavaUlbe Bosma and Jon Curry-Machado consider the parallel trajectories of the Cuba and Java sugar industries.
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Media typesThreads of EmpireAnna Arabindan-Kesson writes about her research on the visual economy of cotton in the Indian and Atlantic Ocean worlds.
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Media typesTasmanian TimbersCaroline Cornish on the significance of Tasmanian woods at the 1862 London Exhibition.
