EH.N: ANN: Commodities of Empire Working Papers series launched

[Jonathan Curry-Machado]

*Launch of Commodities of Empire Working Papers series*

The Commodities of Empire project and network 
(http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/ferguson-centre/commodities-of-empire/index.html) 
- organised by the Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies (Open 
University) and the Caribbean Studies Centre (London Metropolitan 
University) - is pleased to announce the launch of its Commodities of 
Empire working papers series (ISSN 1756-0098).

The Commodities of Empire Working Papers series provides a space in 
which both members of the Commodities of Empire project, and others 
whose research is related to the aims of this project, can publish their 
findings in a form that enables rapid dissemination in the public 
domain. We hope that this will help stimulate lively debate and 
discussion which will significantly contribute to the development of the 
project's research.

All Working Papers will be available for downloading from the project's 
website 
(http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/ferguson-centre/commodities-of-empire/working-papers/index.htm); 
and the first three papers have now been published:

WP01: Sandip Hazareesingh (Ferguson Centre, Open University), 'Chasing 
Commodities over the Surface of the Globe: shipping, port development, 
and the making of networks between Glasgow and Bombay, c.1850-1880'

WP02: Jonathan Curry-Machado (Caribbean Studies Centre, London 
Metropolitan University), 'Sub-imperial Globalisation and the Phoenix of 
Empire: sugar, engineering and commerce in nineteenth-century Cuba'

WP03: Jean Stubbs (Caribbean Studies Centre, London Metropolitan 
University), 'Reinventing Mecca: Tobacco in the Dominican Republic, 
1763-2007'


Dr Jonathan Curry-Machado
Series Editor
Commodities of Empire Working Papers

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