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Contents

1 Disentangling commodity histories: pauame and sassafras in the early modern global world Clare Griffin

19 Linking the Atlantic and Indian Oceans: Asian textiles, Spanish silver, global capital, and the financing of the Portuguese–Brazilian slave trade (c.1760–1808) J. Bohorquez Journal of

39 Why don’t some cuisines travel? Charting palm oil’s journey from West African staple to Malayan chemical Geoffrey Kevin Pakiam

61 Transnationalism and insurrection: independence committees, anti-colonial networks, and Germany’s global war Global History Jennifer Jenkins, Heike Liebau and Larissa Schmid

81 The Trading with the Enemy Acts in the age of expropriation, 1914–49 Nicholas Mulder

101 The globalization of hybrid maize, 1921–70 Derek Byerlee

123 Water powers: the Second World War and the mobilization of hydroelectricity in Canada, the United States, and Germany

Julie Cohn, Matthew Evenden and Marc Landry e m lu vo

149 A benchmark for the environment: big science and ‘artificial’ geophysics in the global 1950s Benjamin W. Goossen

15 169 Decolonization, the Cold War, and Africans’ routes to higher education overseas, 1957–65

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193 R eviews

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Articles 1 Disentangling commodity histories: pauame and sassafras in the early modern global world Clare Griffin 19 Linking the Atlantic and Indian Oceans: Asian textiles, Spanish silver, global capital, and the financing of the Portuguese–Brazilian slave trade (c.1760–1808) J. Bohorquez 39 Why don’t some cuisines travel? Charting palm oil’s journey from West African staple to Malayan chemical Geoffrey Kevin Pakiam 61 Transnationalism and insurrection: independence committees, anti-colonial networks, and Germany’s global war Jennifer Jenkins, Heike Liebau and Larissa Schmid 81 The Trading with the Enemy Acts in the age of expropriation, 1914–49 Nicholas Mulder 101 The globalization of hybrid maize, 1921–70 Derek Byerlee 123 Water powers: the Second World War and the mobilization of hydroelectricity in Canada, the United States, and Germany Julie Cohn, Matthew Evenden and Marc Landry 149 A benchmark for the environment: big science and ‘artificial’ geophysics in the global 1950s Benjamin W. Goossen 169 Decolonization, the Cold War, and Africans’ routes to higher education overseas, 1957–65 Eric Burton

reviews 193 Frederik Vermote on Dominic Sachsenmaier Global entanglements of a man who never traveled: a seventeenth-century Chinese Christian and his conflicted worlds 194 Christopher D. Bahl on Elizabeth A. Lambourn Abraham’s luggage: a social life of things in the medieval Indian Ocean world 196 Roger L. Albin on Geoffrey B. Robinson The killing season: a history of the Indonesian massacres, 1965–1966

erratum 201 The global process of thinking global literature: from Marx’s Weltliteratur to Sarkozy’s littérature-monde – ERRATUM Jernej Habjan