"Commodities provide a lens through which local and global histories can be understood and written. The study of commodities history follows these goods as they make their way from land and water through processing and trade to eventual consumption. It is a fast-developing field with...

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 --...