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  • Anderson, Jennifer. Mahogany: The Cost of Luxury in Early America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.

  • Beckert, Sven. Empire of Cotton: A Global History. New York: Vintage Books, 2015.

  • Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge, and Benjamin Breen. “Hybrid Atlantics: Future Directions for the History of the Atlantic World.” History Compass 11, 8 (2013): 597-609.

  • Carney, Judith. Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.

  • Crawford, Sharika. The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

  • Edelson, S. Max “Beyond “Black Rice”: Reconstructing Material and Cultural Contexts for Early Plantation Agriculture.” American Historical Review 115, 1 (February 2015): 125-135.

  • Eltis, David, Philip Morgan, and David Richardson. “Agency and Diaspora in Atlantic History: Reassessing the African Contribution to Rice Cultivation in the Americas.” American Historical Review 112, 5 (December 2007):1329-1358.

  • Eltis, David, Philip Morgan, and David Richardson. “Black, Brown, or White? Color-Coding American Commercial Rice Cultivation with Slave Labor.” American Historical Review 115, 1 (February 2015): 164-171.

  • Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. “Africa and Africans in the African Diaspora: The Uses of Relational Databases.” American Historical Review 115, 1 (February 2015): 136-150.

  • Hawthorne, Walter. “From “Black Rice” to “Brown”: Rethinking the History of Risiculture in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Atlantic.” American Historical Review 115, 1 (February 2015): 151-163.

  • Kopytoff, Igor. “The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process.” In The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, edited by Arjun Appadurai, 64-91. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

  • Lane, Kris. Potosí: The Silver City that Changed the World. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019.

  • Mintz, Sidney W. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York: Penguin Books, 1986.

  • Norton, Marcy. Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008.

  • O’Malley, Greg. Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

  • Topik, Steven, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank. “Introduction: Commodity Chains in Theory and in Latin American History.” In From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000, edited by Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephy Frank, 1-24. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.

  • Warsh, Molly. American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

Individual readings

  • Abreu-Runkel, Rosa. Vanilla: A Global History. London: Reakton Books, 2020.

  • Alves, B. (2019, June 24). "Volume of emeralds exported in Colombia by region 2018." Statista. https://www.statista.com/statistics/807469/colombia-volume-emeralds-exported-region/.

  • Anthony, David W., and Nikolai B. Vinogradov. “Birth of the Chariot.” Archaeology, vol. 48, no. 2, 1995, pp. 36–41. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41771098. Accessed 3 May 2021.

  • Balfour-Paul, Jenny. Indigo. London: British Museum Press, 1998.

  • “Banks.” Biomes of the World. Accessed May 07, 2021. https://php.radford.edu/~swoodwar/biomes/?page_id=828.

  • Bergman, Gösta Mauritz. Lighting in the Theatre. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1977. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.32106018499688?urlappend=%3Bsignon=swle: https://shibidp.cit.cornell.edu/idp/shibboleth.

  • Bergougnoux, Véronique. “The History of Tomato: From Domestication to Biopharming.” Biotechnology Advances, Plant Biotechnology 2013: “Green for Good II”, 32, 1 (2014): 170–89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotechadv.2013.11.003.

  • Bjork, Katharine. “The Link That Kept the Philippines Spanish: Mexican Merchant Interests and the Manila Trade, 1571-1815.” Journal of World History 9, no. 1 (1998): 25-50. Accessed April 20, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20078712.

  • Bolster, W. Jeffrey. The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.

  • Brandt, Karl. Whale Oil: an Economic Analysis. Stanford University, Calif.: Food research institute, 1940. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015031343554?urlappend=%3Bsignon=swle:https://shibidp.cit.cornell.edu/idp/shibboleth.

  • Brazeal, B. (2014). "The History of Emerald Mining in Colombia: An Examination of Spanish-Language Sources." The Extractive Industries and Society, 1(2), 273–283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2014.08.006

  • Briggs, Helen. “Mystery of Horse Taming 'Solved' by Gene Study.” BBC News, BBC, 8 May 2012, www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-17943974.

  • Cameron, Kenneth Michael. Vanilla Orchids: Natural History and Cultivation. Portland, Or.: Timber Press, 2011.

  • Connett, Christina, Akeia Benard, Kathryn Tartleton, and Charlotte Hamlin. "A Spectacle in Motion: The Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage 'Round the World." Digital Grand Panorama. 2018. Accessed March 28, 2021. https://nbwm.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=19513a5d13964a48aa9d00973c8a9674#.

  • Corbeiller, Clare Le, and Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen. “Chinese Export Porcelain.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 60, no. 3 (2003): 1. https://doi.org/10.2307/3269266.

  • Denhardt, Robert M. “Spanish Horses and the New World.” The Historian, vol. 1, no. 1, 1938, pp. 5–23. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24435691. Accessed 3 May 2021.

  • Dolin, Eric Jay, interviewee. "Leviathan, The History of Whaling in America with Eric Jay Dolin." In Moir's Environmental Dialogues, produced by Rob Jay Moir. Voice America. May 25, 2011.

  • Earle, Rebecca. “’If you eat their food…’ Diets and Bodies in Early Colonial Spanish America.” American Historical Review. Volume 115, Issue 3.

  • Ecott, Tim. Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Ice Cream Orchid. New York: Grove Press, 2004. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924094627035?urlappend=%3Bsignon=swle:https://shibidp.cit.cornell.edu/idp/shibboleth.

  • Edwards, H. T. (Harry Taylor). Production of Henequen Fiber in Yucatan and Campeche. Vol. no.1278 (1924). Washington, D.C. : U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1924. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/190267.

  • Grandin, Greg. Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City. London: Icon, 2010.

  • Gras, Norman Scott Brien, and Henrietta M Larson. Casebook in American Business History. New York: F.S. Crofts & Co., 1939. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015035802779?urlappend=%3Bsignon=swle:https://shibidp.cit.cornell.edu/idp/shibboleth.

  • Greenfield, Amy Butler. A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire. New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2006.

  • Guerty, P. M., and K. Switaj. “Tea, Porcelain, and Sugar in the British Atlantic World.” OAH Magazine of History 18, no. 3 (2004): 56–59. https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/18.3.56.

  • Hariot, Thomas. A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia. London: R. Robinson, 1588.

  • Hariot, Thomas. A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia. Frankfurt: Johannes Wechel, 1590.

  • Holland, Peter, and Michael Patterson. "Eighteenth-Century Theatre." In The Oxford Illustrated History of the Theatre, edited by John Russell Brown, 255-98. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

  • Hutchinson, Dale L, Clark Spencer Larsen, Margaret J Schoeninger and Lynetter Norr. "Regional variation in the Pattern of maize Adoption and Use in Florida and Georgia.” https://www.jstor.org/stable/2694627?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents, p 398

  • Hyman, Clarissa. Tomato: A Global History. London, UK: Reaktion Books, 2019.

  • Innis, Harold Adams. The Cod Fisheries. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1940.

  • Jeffreys, M. D. W. “Columbus and the Introduction of Maize into Spain.” Anthropos, vol. 50, no. 1/3, 1955, pp. 427–432. .

  • Joseph, Gilbert M. Revolution From Without: Yucatán, Mexico, and the United States, 1880-1924. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

  • Kane, R. E., Kammerling, R. C., Moldes, R., Koivula, J. I., McClure, S. F., & Smith, C. P. (1989). "Emerald and Gold Treasures of the Spanish Galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha." Gems & Gemology, 25(4), 196–206. https://doi.org/10.5741/gems.25.4.196

  • Knorr, Klaus. World Rubber and Its Regulation. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1945.

  • Kourí, Emilio. A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property, and Community in Papantla, Mexico. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004.

  • Kurlansky, Mark. Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World. New York: Penguin Books, 1998.

  • LaCerva, Daniel A. “Purepécha y Pescado: Food, Status, and Conquest in 16th century Michoacán.” (MA thesis, The University of Toledo). August 2017.

  • Lane, K. E. (2010). The Colour of Paradise: Emeralds in the Age of the Gunpowder Empires. Yale University Press.

  • Llwyd, Humphrey. The breuiary of Britayne. London: Richard Johnes, 1573.

  • Loades, DM. England's Maritime Empire: Seapower, Commerce, and Policy 1490–1690. New York: Longman, 2000.

  • Lobell, Jarrett A., and Eric A. Powell. “The Story of the Horse.” Archaeology, vol. 68, no. 4, 2015, pp. 28–33. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24364715. Accessed 3 May 2021.

  • MacLeod, Murdo J. Spanish Central America: A Socioeconomic History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.

  • Mann, Charles C. “How the Potato Changed the World.” Smithsonian Magazine, November 2011. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-potato-changed-the-world-108470605/.

  • McCann, James. “Maize and Grace: History, Corn, and Africa's New Landscapes, 1500-1999.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 43, no. 2, 2001, pp. 246–272.

  • McCreery, David. “Indigo Commodity Chains in the Spanish and British Empires.” In From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000, eds. Carlos Marichal, Steven Topik, and Zephyr Frank. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.

  • McCue, George Allen. “The History of the Use of the Tomato: An Annotated Bibliography.” Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 39, 4(1952): 289–348. https://doi.org/10.2307/2399094.

  • Melville, Herman. Moby Dick: Or, The Whale. First Avenue Classics, 2014. https://search-ebscohost-com.proxy.library.cornell.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e870sww&AN=838020&site=eds-live&scope=site.

  • Metz, L. The American Revolution. Rosen Publishing Group, 2014

  • Milhous, Judith. "Lighting at the Kings Theatre, Haymarket, 1780–82." Theatre Research International 16, no. 3 (Autumn 1991): 215-36.

  • Miracle, Marvin P. “The Introduction and Spread of Maize in Africa.” The Journal of African History, vol. 6, no. 1, 1965, pp. 39–55.

  • Mortimer, W. Golden. History of Coca: The Divine Plant of the Incas. Illustrated, J.H. Vail and Company, 1901.

  • Nye, Eric W. Pounds Sterling to Dollars: Historical Conversion of Currency, accessed Monday, April 26, 2021, https://www.uwyo.edu/numimage/currency.htm.

  • Pogue, J. E. (1916, September). "The Emerald Deposits of Muzo, Colombia." Pala International. http://www.palagems.com/emerald-colombia.

  • Pope, Peter Edward. Fish into Wine the Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

  • Price, Curtis Alexander, Robert D. Hume, and Judith Milhous. Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

  • Priyadarshini, Meha. “Conclusion: Themes from a Connected World.” Chinese Porcelain in Colonial Mexico, 2018, 167–77. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66547-4_6.

  • Rain, Patricia. Vanilla: the Cultural History of the World's Most Popular Flavor and Fragrance. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2004.

  • Robinson, Allison. “The Triangle Trade and the English Export Ceramics Industry.” Material Matters, February 18, 2017. https://sites.udel.edu/materialmatters/2017/02/21/the-triangle-trade-and-the-english-export-ceramics-industry/.

  • Rose, George A. Cod: The Ecological History of the North Atlantic Fisheries. St. Johns, NL: Breakwater Books, 2007.

  • Schiller, Fredrich. "Theatre as a Moral Institution." Translated by John Chambless & John Sigerson. Accessed April 25, 2021. https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/transl/schil_theatremoral.html.

  • Schrøder, Michael. The Argand Burner. Its Origin and Development in France and England 1780-1800. Odense: Odense University Press, 1969.

  • Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare’s Sonnets, ed. Katherine Duncan-Jones. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2001.

  • Smith, Andrew F. Potato: A Global History. Reaktion Books, 2014. 15.

  • Smith, Andrew F. The Tomato in America: Early History, Culture, and Cookery. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1994.

  • Smith, FH. Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005

  • Standage, T. A History of the World in 6 Glasses. Atlantic Books, 2007.

  • Stevens, H. P, and W. H Stevens. Rubber Production and Utilization of the Raw Product. 4th ed. London: Sir I. Pitman & sons, ltd, 1934.

  • TillersInternational. 1920s McCormick Deering Grain Binder, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFybEbaTBhI.

  • Topik, Steven, and Carlos Marichal. “Mexican Cochineal and the European Demand for American Dyes, 1550-1850.” In From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000, 76–92. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007.

  • Topik, Steven., Carlos. Marichal, and Zephyr L. Frank. From Silver to Cocaine : Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006.

  • Valdez, Lidio M., et al. “Ancient Use of Coca Leaves in the Peruvian Central Highlands.” Journal of Anthropological Research, vol. 71, no. 2, 2015, pp. 231–58.

  • Wells, Allen. Yucatán's Gilded Age: Haciendas, Henequen, and International Harvester, 1860-1915. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985.

  • Wolfe, John J. Brandy, Balloons & Lamps: Ami Argand, 1750-1803. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999.

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