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Abacus and Mah Jong
Sino-Mauritian Settlement and Economic Consolidation
Av Marina Carter, James Ng Foong Kwong
Inbunden, 2009
2378 kr
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This work aims to engage with the complexities surrounding evaluations of ethnic and national identity - a focus of recent interest by scholars from a range of disciplines including political science, anthropology and economics - through a case study of Chinese migration to and settlement in …
Serving Empire, Serving Nation
James Tod and the Rajputs of Rajasthan
Inbunden, 2009
2563 kr
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James Tod’s Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan was crucial in forming the modern image of the Rājpūt, a princely “martial” caste resident in India’s northwest desert. This book explores the relationships between the political power of the British imperial state, the construction of historical …
Migration, Trade, and Slavery in an Expanding World
Essays in Honor of Pieter Emmer
Inbunden, 2009
2620 kr
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The twelve essays explore three connected aspects of European expansion in the period between 1500 and 1900 - migration, trade, and slavery - with some attention given to present-day echoes from that era. The book's first section deals with European migration to transatlantic and Asian …
Grappling with the Beast
Indigenous Southern African Responses to Colonialism, 1840-1930
Inbunden, 2010
2931 kr
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This volume contributes rich, new material to provide insights into indigenous responses to the colonial empires of Great Britain (South Africa, Swaziland, Botswana, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)) and Germany (Namibia) and explore the complex intellectual, cultural, literary, and political borders and …
Navigator
The Log of John Anderson, VOC Pilot-Major, 1640-1643
Inbunden, 2010
2520 kr
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Captain John Anderson served in the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as ‘Pilot-Major’ in a fleet of ships that set sail from Europe in December 1640, and returned with his ships in July 1643. This was Anderson’s fourth voyage to the East Indies. His journey took three years during which time he …
Creolization and Diaspora in the Portuguese Indies
The Social World of Ayutthaya, 1640-1720
Inbunden, 2011
2445 kr
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This book provides an original study of the sizeable Portuguese community in Ayutthaya, the chief river-state in Siam, during a period of apparent decline (1640-1720). Portuguese populations were displaced from their chief settlements like Melaka and Makassar, and attracted to the river-states of …
China in European Encyclopaedias, 1700-1850
Av Georg Lehner
Inbunden, 2011
2393 kr
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This book shows how knowledge about China became part of European general knowledge. It examines English, French, and German encyclopaedias published between 1700 and 1850 and explores the use and presentation of information on China in works of general knowledge. The first chapters explore the …
Portuguese Enterprise in the East
Survival in the Years 1707-1757
Inbunden, 2011
2445 kr
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Since 2000, there have been fewer studies released about the ‘formal aspects’ of the operation of colonial powers, such as Portugal, in the East during the Early Modern period. Prior, the fall of Communism, in the last decade of the twentieth century, gave a boost to liberal ideology, while …
Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment
Europeans, Asians, Settlers and Indigenous Societies
Inbunden, 2012
3023 kr
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Today the bulk of tangible wealth around the globe resides in buildings and physical infrastructure rather than moveable goods. This situation was not always the case. Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment represents the first attempt to delve into the period’s enhanced architectural …
Conflict and Conversion in Sixteenth Century Central Mexico
The Augustinian War on and Beyond the Chichimeca Frontier
Inbunden, 2013
2647 kr
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In the sixteenth century Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian missionaries attempted to convert the native populations of central Mexico. The native peoples generally viewed the new religion in terms very different from that of the missionaries. As conflict broke out after 1550 as Spaniards …
Convict Labor in the Portuguese Empire, 1740-1932
Redefining the Empire with Forced Labor and New Imperialism
Inbunden, 2013
2209 kr
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Forced convict labor provided the Portuguese with solutions to the growing criminal population at home and the lack of infrastructure in Angola and Mozambique. In Convict Labor in the Portuguese Empire, Timothy J. Coates examines the role of large numbers of convicts in Portuguese Africa from 1800 …
Hinterlands and Commodities
Place, Space, Time and the Political Economic Development of Asia over the Long Eighteenth Century
Inbunden, 2014
2406 kr
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In Hinterlands and Commodities: Place, Space, Time and the Political Economic Development of Asia over the Long Eighteenth Century, well-known economic and social historians examine important questions concerning temporal and spatial relationships among central places, hinterlands, commodities, and …
Changes in Ethical Worldviews of Spanish Missionaries in Mexico
An Ethical Transition from Sight to Touch in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Av Ran Tene
Inbunden, 2015
1896 kr
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"Conversion" is a basic religious concept, which has manifold implications for our everyday lives. Ran Tene's Changes in Ethical Worldviews of Spanish Missionaries in Mexico utilizes a cross-disciplinary methodology in which the fields of Philosophy, History, and Literary Studies are drawn upon to …
Demographic Change and Ethnic Survival among the Sedentary Populations on the Jesuit Mission Frontiers of Spanish South America, 1609-1803
The Formation and Persistence of Mission Communities in a Comparative Context
Inbunden, 2015
2257 kr
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Beginning in 1609, Jesuit missionaries established missions (reductions) among sedentary and non-sedentary native populations in the larger region defined as the Province of Paraguay (Rio de la Plata region, eastern Bolivia). One consequence of resettlement on the missions was exposure to highly …
Boxer Codex
Transcription and Translation of an Illustrated Late Sixteenth-Century Spanish Manuscript Concerning the Geography, History and Ethnography of the Pacific, South-east and East Asia
Av George Bryan Souza, Jeffrey Scott Turley
Inbunden, 2015
4405 kr
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In The Boxer Codex, the editors have transcribed, translated and annotated an illustrated late-16th century Spanish manuscript. It is a special source that provides evidence for understanding early-modern geography, ethnography and history of parts of the western Pacific, as well as major segments …
Annexation and the Unhappy Valley
The Historical Anthropology of Sindh’s Colonization
Inbunden, 2015
2177 kr
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Annexation and the Unhappy Valley: The Historical Anthropology of Sindh’s Colonization addresses the nineteenth century expansion and consolidation of British colonial power in the Sindh region of South Asia. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach and employs a fine-grained, nuanced and situated …
Northern Mozambique in the Nineteenth Century: The Travels and Explorations of H.E. O’Neill
Av Hilary C. Palmer, Malyn D.D. Newitt
Inbunden, 2016
2656 kr
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Henry Edward O’Neill was British Consul in Mozambique from 1879 to 1889. He completed thirteen exploratory journeys in northern Mozambique, including the first exploration of the Makua and Lomwe countries between Mozambique Island and Lake Malawi. This recreation of the book, which he never …
Beyond Empires: Global, Self-Organizing, Cross-Imperial Networks, 1500-1800
Inbunden, 2016
2391 kr
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Beyond Empires explores the complexity of empire building from the point of view of self-organized networks, rather than from the point of view of the central state. This focus takes readers into a world of cooperative strategies worldwide that emphasises the role played by individuals, rather than …
Political Economy of Indigo in India, 1580-1930
A Global Perspective
Inbunden, 2016
2391 kr
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In The Political Economy of Indigo in India, 1580-1930: A Global Perspective Ghulam A. Nadri explores the dynamics of the indigo industry and trade from a long-term perspective and examines the local and global forces that affected the potentialities of production in India and elsewhere and caused …
1624 Tumult of Mexico in Perspective (c. 1620–1650)
Authority and Conflict Resolution in the Iberian Atlantic
Inbunden, 2017
2834 kr
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In The 1624 Tumult of Mexico in Perspective Angela Ballone offers, for the first time, a comprehensive study of an understudied period of Mexican early modern history. By looking at the mandates of three viceroys who, to varying degrees, participated in the events surrounding the Tumult, the book …
Silver by Fire, Silver by Mercury: A Chemical History of Silver Refining in New Spain and Mexico, 16th to 19th Centuries
Inbunden, 2017
3023 kr
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In Silver by Fire, Silver by Mercury: A Chemical History of Silver Refining in New Spain and Mexico, 16th to 19th Centuries, Saul Guerrero combines historical research with geology and chemistry to refute the current prevailing narrative of a primitive effort dominated by mercury and its copious …
Commentaries of D. García de Silva y Figueroa on his Embassy to Shāh ʿAbbās I of Persia on Behalf of Philip III, King of Spain
Av Jeffrey Scott Turley, George Bryan Souza
Inbunden, 2017
5606 kr
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The Commentaries is the first complete English language translation, with complete annotations, of a unique and extraordinary memoir from the pen of the erudite Spanish soldier-diplomat D. García de Silva y Figueroa over the course of his embassy to Persia (1614–1624). The Commentaries transcend …
Cosmopolitanism in the Portuguese-Speaking World
Inbunden, 2017
2365 kr
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This book addresses different dimensions of cosmopolitanism in the Portuguese-speaking world which have caused much debate, such as migration and globalisation. The volume includes contributions from leading specialists in History, Musicology, Literary Studies, Anthropology and Political Sciences. …
Quakers and Native Americans
Inbunden, 2018
1953 kr
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Quakers and Native Americans examines the history of interactions between Quakers and Native Americans (American Indians). Fourteen scholarly essays cover the period from the 1650s to the twentieth century. American Indians often guided the Quakers by word and example, demanding that they give …
Chinese Annals of Batavia, the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji and Other Stories (1610-1795)
Inbunden, 2018
1854 kr
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In The Chinese Annals of Batavia, the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji and Other Stories (1610-1795) Leonard Blussé and Nie Dening open up a veritable treasure trove of Chinese archival sources about the autonomous history of Chinese Batavia. The main part of this study is devoted to the annotated translation of …
In the Name of the Battle against Piracy
Ideas and Practices in State Monopoly of Maritime Violence in Europe and Asia in the Period of Transition
Av Atsushi Ota
Inbunden, 2018
2381 kr
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In the Name of the Battle against Piracy discusses antipiracy campaigns in Europe and Asia in the 16th-19th centuries. Nine contributors argue how important antipiracy campaigns were for the establishment of a (colonial) state, because piracy was a threat not only to maritime commerce, but also to …
Regional Conflict and Demographic Patterns on the Jesuit Missions among the Guaraní in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Inbunden, 2019
1920 kr
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In the 17th and 18th centuries Spain and Portugal contested control of the disputed Rio de la Plata borderlands. The Jesuit missions among the Guarani played an important role in regional conflict through the provision of manpower for campaigns and supplies. However, regional conflict and …
Agency of Empire: Connections and Strategies in French Overseas Expansion (1686-1746)
Inbunden, 2019
1697 kr
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In The Agency of Empire: Connections and Strategies in French Expansion (1686-1746) Elisabeth Heijmans places directors and their connections at the centre of the developments and operations of French overseas companies. The focus on directors’ decisions and networks challenges the conception of …
Gendering the Portuguese-Speaking World
From the Middle Ages to the Present
Inbunden, 2021
1957 kr
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This book explores the significance of gender in shaping the Portuguese-speaking world from the Middle Ages to the present. Sixteen scholars from disciplines including history, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, literature and cultural studies analyse different configurations and literary …
Ethnography and Encounter
The Dutch and English in Seventeenth-Century South Asia
Inbunden, 2021
1841 kr
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The global operations of the East India Companies were profoundly shaped by European perceptions of foreign lands. Providing a cultural perspective absent from existing economic and institutional histories, Ethnography and Encounter is the first book to systematically explore how Company agents’ …
