Commodities of Empire

A British Academy Research Project

Past Events

2016

  • Workshop: Global Commodity Frontiers in Comparative Historical Context

2015

  • Workshop: Global Capitalism and Commodity Frontiers
  • Workshop: Environmental Histories of Commodities, 1800-2000

2014

  • Workshop: Capitalist Growth, Commodity Frontiers and Sustainability, 1500-2020

2013

  • Workshop and Launch: Commodity Histories website, and Global Histories, Imperial Commodities and Local Interactions book

2012

  • Workshop: Local forms of production as resistance against global domination – anti-commodities
  • Networking workshop: Designing a collaborative research web space – aims, plans and challenges of the Commodity Histories project

2011

  • Commodities of Empire annual project workshop

2010

  • Workshop: Local forms of production as resistance against global domination – anti-commodities

2009

  • Workshop: Power and Resistance within Commodity Chains, 1800-2000
  • Workshop: Re-Appropriating World Market Production – Commodity Chains in the Project of Postcolonial Development (1920-2000)
  • Workshop: History of Commodities and Commodity Chains

2008

  • Workshop: Commodities in evolution – historical change in different ages of globalisation, 1800-2000

2007

  • Workshop: Commodities, Empires and Beyond
  • Commodities of Empire seminar