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Law and Colonial Cultures
Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900
Häftad, 2001
435 kr
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Advances an interesting perspective in world history, arguing that institutions and culture - and not just the global economy - serve as important elements of international order. Focusing on colonial legal politics and the interrelation of local and indigenous cultural contests and institutional …
Cross-Cultural Trade in World History
Av Philip D. Curtin, Edmund Iii Burke
Häftad, 1984
485 kr
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A single theme is pursued in this book - the trade between peoples of differing cultures through world history. Extending from the ancient world to the coming of the commercial revolution, Professor Curtin's discussion encompasses a broad and diverse group of trading relationships. Drawing on …
Rethinking World History
Essays on Europe, Islam and World History
Av Marshall G. S. Hodgson, Edmund Burke III
Inbunden, 1993
1559 kr
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Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe writ large? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins in Western Europe? In this posthumous collection of essays, Marshall G. S. Hodgson challenges adherents of both …
Rethinking World History
Essays on Europe, Islam and World History
Av Marshall G. S. Hodgson, Edmund Burke III
Häftad, 1993
502 kr
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Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe writ large? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins in Western Europe? In this posthumous collection of essays, Marshall G. S. Hodgson challenges adherents of both …
Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands
Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800-1830
Häftad, 2009
871 kr
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Blending fine-grained case studies with overarching theory, this book seeks both to integrate Southeast Asia into world history and to rethink much of Eurasia's premodern past. It argues that Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan, China, and South Asia all embodied idiosyncratic versions of a Eurasian-wide …
The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex
Essays in Atlantic History
Av Philip D. Curtin, III Burke, Edmund m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1341 kr
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Over a period of several centuries, Europeans developed an intricate system of plantation agriculture overseas which was quite different from the agricultural system used at home. Though the plantation complex centered on the American tropics, its influence was much wider. Much more than an …
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
Inbunden, 1998
1526 kr
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This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. African institutions, political events, and economic structures …
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
Häftad, 1998
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440 kr
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This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. African institutions, political events, and economic structures …
The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex
Essays in Atlantic History
Av Philip D. Curtin, Edmund Iii Burke
Häftad, 1998
426 kr
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Over a period of several centuries, Europeans developed an intricate system of plantation agriculture overseas which was quite different from the agricultural system used at home. Though the plantation complex centered on the American tropics, its influence was much wider. Much more than an …
Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland
Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800-1830
Inbunden, 2003
1307 kr
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This ambitious work has two novel goals: to overcome the extreme fragmentation of early Southeast Asian historiography, and to connect Southeast Asian to world history. Combining careful local research with wide-ranging theory Lieberman argues that over a thousand years, each of mainland Southeast …
Law and Colonial Cultures
Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900
Av Lauren Benton, Edmund Iii Burke
Inbunden, 2001
1677 kr
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Advances an interesting perspective in world history, arguing that institutions and culture - and not just the global economy - serve as important elements of international order. Focusing on colonial legal politics and the interrelation of local and indigenous cultural contests and institutional …
Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland
Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800-1830
Häftad, 2003
787 kr
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This ambitious work has two novel goals: to overcome the extreme fragmentation of early Southeast Asian historiography, and to connect Southeast Asian to world history. Combining careful local research with wide-ranging theory Lieberman argues that over a thousand years, each of mainland Southeast …
Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands
Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800-1830
Inbunden, 2009
2247 kr
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Blending fine-grained case studies with overarching theory, this book seeks both to integrate Southeast Asia into world history and to rethink much of Eurasia's premodern past. It argues that Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan, China, and South Asia all embodied idiosyncratic versions of a Eurasian-wide …
Networks of Empire
Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company
Av Kerry Ward
Inbunden, 2008
1291 kr
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This book argues that the Dutch East India Company empire manifested itself through multiple networks that amalgamated spatially and over time into an imperial web whose sovereignty was effectively created and maintained but always partial and contingent. Networks of Empire proposes that early …
The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia
Industrial Production, 1770-2010
Av Ulbe Bosma
Inbunden, 2013
1677 kr
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European markets almost exclusively relied on Caribbean sugar produced by slave labor until abolitionist campaigns began around 1800. Thereafter, importing Asian sugar and transferring plantation production to Asia became a serious option for the Western world. In this book, Ulbe Bosma details how …
Luxury in Global Perspective
Objects and Practices, 1600-2000
Av Karin Hofmeester, Bernd-Stefan Grewe
Inbunden, 2016
1927 kr
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Global history is predicated on connections and exchange: how connections between far-flung people, places, and objects are forged through a variety of exchanges. As world history has matured as a field, its practitioners have found the movement of commodities between peoples, places, and time a …
Assembling the Tropics
Science and Medicine in Portugal's Empire, 1450-1700
Av Hugh Cagle
Inbunden, 2018
635 kr
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From popular fiction to modern biomedicine, the tropics are defined by two essential features: prodigious nature and debilitating illness. That was not always so. In this engaging and imaginative study, Hugh Cagle shows how such a vision was created. Along the way, he challenges conventional …
Networks of Empire
Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company
Av Kerry Ward
Häftad, 2012
574 kr
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This book argues that the Dutch East India Company empire manifested itself through multiple networks that amalgamated spatially and over time into an imperial web whose sovereignty was effectively created and maintained but always partial and contingent. Networks of Empire proposes that early …
Global Gifts
The Material Culture of Diplomacy in Early Modern Eurasia
Av Zoltán Biedermann, Anne Gerritsen m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
586 kr
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This anthology explores the role that art and material goods played in diplomatic relations and political exchanges between Asia, Africa, and Europe in the early modern world. The authors challenge the idea that there was a European primacy in the practice of gift giving through a wide panoramic …
Global Gifts
The Material Culture of Diplomacy in Early Modern Eurasia
Av Zoltán Biedermann, Anne Gerritsen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1624 kr
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This anthology explores the role that art and material goods played in diplomatic relations and political exchanges between Asia, Africa, and Europe in the early modern world. The authors challenge the idea that there was a European primacy in the practice of gift giving through a wide panoramic …
The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia
Industrial Production, 1770-2010
Av Ulbe Bosma
Häftad, 2016
574 kr
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European markets almost exclusively relied on Caribbean sugar produced by slave labor until abolitionist campaigns began around 1800. Thereafter, importing Asian sugar and transferring plantation production to Asia became a serious option for the Western world. In this book, Ulbe Bosma details how …
Assembling the Tropics
Science and Medicine in Portugal's Empire, 1450-1700
Av Hugh Cagle
Häftad, 2019
459 kr
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From popular fiction to modern biomedicine, the tropics are defined by two essential features: prodigious nature and debilitating illness. That was not always so. In this engaging and imaginative study, Hugh Cagle shows how such a vision was created. Along the way, he challenges conventional …
