Research, Commodities of Empire Project

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News

Research website

The AHRC-funded Commodity Histories website was launched in September 2013, as an open-access resource for both research and teaching on commodities and global history. It also aims to raise public awareness of the histories and cultures of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America via their crucial role in the production of commodities and in their growing of all kinds of useful plants and crops. It is the first digital academic site in the UK to broadly focus on the histories of these parts of the world. We actively encourage contributions to the website, so if you have any suggestions please get in touch via the ‘Contribute’ or ‘Contact’ sections of the site.

Research projects and networks

Commodities of Empire has just completed the four-year research collaboration (2009-13) with Wageningen University's Technology and Agrarian Development Group, on the theme of Commodities and Anticommodities, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The outcomes of this research will be published in a collection titled Local subversions of colonial cultures in global history: commodities and anticommodities, edited by Sandip Hazareesingh (OU) and Harro Maat (Wageningen), by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014.

Commodities of Empire also has working links with the following research centres, networks, and projects:

• International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
• NiCHE – Network in Canadian History & Environment  
• Global History and Culture Centre, Warwick University
• Estudios Atlanticos, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
• Centre of Excellence 'Cultural Foundations of Integration', Konstanz University
• Instituto de Estudio del Caribe

Link to the researchers currently involved in the Commodities of Empire project.