Examining the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for 500 years, this work follows a specific commodity from its inception, through its development and transport, to its final destination in the hands of consumers

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The making of market conventions -- Transport and tactics -- The economic culture of drugs -- Transplanting -- The economics of violence -- Making modern markets -- World trade, industrialization, and deindustrialization -- Manufacturing since World War II --...