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Includes material from the following collections: George Arents Collection on Tobacco (New York Public Library); Braga Brothers Collection (University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries); Hudson's Bay Company Archives.
Includes material about the following companies: Harveys of Bristol, Canton Tea, Divine Chocolate, The Fairtrade Foundation, Imperial Tobacco, W.D. & H.O. Wills, Cadburys, Frys, East India Company, Dutch East India Company, Hudson's Bay Company, Braga Brothers, Czarnikow Rionda Company.
Includes material on the following topics: globalisation, commodities, material culture, advertising and marketing, consumerism, Fairtrade, trade and commerce, exploration and discovery, ecology and the environment.
Reproduced from original materials held in the following repositories: American Antiquarian Society; Bodleian Library; Bristol Record Office; British Library; California Historical Society; Field Museum Library, Chicago; George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida; Glenbow Museum; Harvard College Library; Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Houston University Library; Hudson's Bay Company Archives; Library Company of Philadelphia; Liverpool John Moores University; Massachusetts Historical Society; Mauritshuis, den Haag; Merseyside Maritime Museum; Nantucket Historial Association; National Gallery of Art, Washington; The National Archives; National Gallery, London; Newberry Library, Chicago; New York Public Library; Robert Opie Collection; Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery; Princeton University Art Museum; School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; Senate House Library, University of London; Städel Museum, Frankfurt.