Commodities of Empire is a British Academy Research Project that is a University of London-based collaboration between the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). In the Commodities of Empire project, we explore the networks through which particular commodities circulated both within and in the spaces between empires, with particular attention to local processes originating in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America, which significantly influenced the outcome of the encounter between the world economy and regional societies. We adopt a comparative approach and explore the experiences of peoples subjected to different imperial hegemonies.