Cátia Atunes is Professor of History and Global Economic Networks at Leiden University. She has published, edited, and translated monographs and articles on the exploitation of early modern empires and the transition from colonialism to imperialism. She is co-editor, with Francisco Bethencourt, of Merchant Cultures: A Global Approach to Spaces, Representations and Worlds of Trade, 1500–1800 (2022). Eric Tagliacozzo is John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the director of the Comparative Muslim Societies Program at Cornell University. His book Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865–1915 (2005)won the Harry Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies (AAS).

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• Introduction Cátia Antunes and Eric Tagliacozzo; Part I. Slavery/Forced Migration: 1. Slavery, captivity and mobilities in the early modern Mediterranean Guillaume Calafat and Mathieu Grenet; 2. Africans on the move: the transatlantic slave trade Damian Alan Pargas; 3. Debt, bondage and indentured labour in land and maritime empires Alessandro Stanzani; Part II. Long Distance Trade: 4. Long-distance trade, the Pacific Paul D'Arcy; 5. Long-distance Japanese trade in the early modern era Adam Clulow; 6. Long-distance trade and migration in Central Asia, 1500-1850 Magnus Marsden; Part III. Short Distance Trade: 7. Maritime migrations of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea Gelina Harlaftis and Katerina Galani; 8. Mobility and migration around the Bay of Bengal David Ludden; 9. Early modern Japan: a state with limited migration Robert Hellyer; Part IV. Migration by Land: 10. Indigenous mobility in the lowlands of South America Cristina Pompa; 11. Chinese expansion in eighteenth-century central Eurasia Peter C. Perdue; 12. Persianate peregrinations: elite migration in Eurasia, from the eleventh to nineteenth centuries James Pickett; Part V. Migration by Sea: 13. Western European long-distance movements Erik Odegard; 14. Emigration, displacement, and forced migration in Indian Ocean Africa Jeremy Prestholdt; 15. Migration by Sea in the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf, 1700–1800 Seema Alavi; Part VI. Rural/Urban Migrations: 16. Urban migration and gender diversity in Eurasia, 1600–1800 Manon van der Heijden; 17. Urbanization and emigration in Coastal South China Steven Miles; 18. Migration in Colonial Latin America Roberta Stumpf; Part VII. Labour Migration: 19. The globality of the Local – (Im)Mobilizing labor regimes under early capitalism and European colonial expansion Matthias van Rossum; 20. Afro-India migrations and the Indianization of East Africa 5000 BCE to 1900 CE Nidhi Mahajan; 21. Labour migration in Sub-Saharan Africa Before 1800 Filipa Ribeiro da Silva; Part VIII. Settler Migration: 22. North America: migrations and settlement (c. 1600 – c. 1800) Bertrand Van Ruymbeke; 23. Turkish migrations in the Greater Turkic-Speaking World, 1450–1830 Suraiya Faroqhi; 24. Dynamics of mobility and settlement in Africa: the horn of Africa, 13th – 19th Centuries Deresse Ayenachew Woldetsadik; Part IX. Religious Migrations: 25. Early modern diasporas Natalia Muchnik; 26. Religious components of Southeast Asian migration Francis R. Bradley; 27. Migrant clerics going East and West José Pedro Paiva; Part X. Refugees: 28. Refugees in Europe and the Atlantic World Geert H. Janssen; 29. 'Mongol' and 'Manchu' and the great conquest enterprises of Eurasia, 1200–1800 Pamela Kyle Crossley; 30. Refugees in Africa (1490–1820) Rémi Dewière.