Abstract
This chapter shows that the analysis of commodity chains can be fruitfully employed to respond to recent calls in the field of global/world history for a periodisation of globalisation.1 The commoditychain approach is ideally suited for advancing global historians’ understanding of the way that particular places are positioned within a changing capitalist world system. This is important because it is this capitalist world system that ultimately defines globalisation in a particular place and therefore also the periodisation of globalisation.
I would like to thank Jonathan Curry-Machado and Robert Heinze for their valuable advice and comments.
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Neveling, P. (2013). A Periodisation of Globalisation According to the Mauritian Integration into the International Sugar Commodity Chain (1825–2005). In: Curry-Machado, J. (eds) Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283603_7
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