The World of Sugar and the Commodity Frontiers Initiative: Editorial
In 2021, Sven Beckert, Ulbe Bosma, Mindi Schneider and Eric Vanhaute published the research agenda of the Commodity Frontiers Initiative (CFI), in which they proposed a theory and trajectory for “studying the global history of capitalism through the lens of commodity frontiers and using commodity regimes as an analytical framework […] crucial to understanding the origins and nature of capitalism, and thus the modern world”.[1]…













