"The history of the modern world can be described through the history of the commodities that were produced, traded and consumed, on an increasingly global scale. The papers presented in this book show how in this process borders were transgressed, local agents combined with metropolitan...

World markets in China's wake -- Natural resources and development under shifting global regimes -- The rise of China as a necessary condition for post-neoliberal breaks -- Typology of political-economic trajectories under commodity boom conditions -- Neodevelopmentalist type: Argentina and...

Introduction: Mapping food and globalization / Alexander Nützenadel and Frank Trentmann -- Part I: Evolution and diversity -- Food, Culture, and energy / Sidney W. Mintz -- The Western Consumption of Hot Beverages, c.1500 to c.1880 / William G. Clarence Smith -- The limits of globalization? The...