Introduction : Commodity chains in theory and in Latin American history
1. The Spanish-American silver peso : export commodity and global money of the ancien regime, 1550-1800
2. Indigo commodity chains in the Spanish and British empires, 1560-1860
3. Mexican Cochineal and the European demand for American dyes, 1550-1850
4. Colonial tobacco : key commodity of the Spanish empire, 1500-1800
5. The Latin American coffee commodity chain : Brazil and Costa Rica
6. Trade regimes and the international sugar market, 1850-1980 : protectionism, subsidies, and regulation
7. The local and the global : internal and external factors in the development of Bahia's cacao sector
8. Banana boats and the baby food : the banana in U.S. history
9. The fertilizer commodity chains : Guano and nitrate, 1840-1930
10. Brazil in the international rubber trade, 1870-1930
11. Reports of its demise are not exaggerated : the life and times of Yucatecan Henequen
12. Cocaine in chains : the rise and demise of a global community commodity, 1860-1950
Conclusion : Commodity chains and globalization in historical perspective
