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Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1800
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 …
Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland
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 …
Rethinking World History
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 …
Assembling the Tropics
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 …
Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands
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 …
Luxury in Global Perspective
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 …
The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex
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. …
Global Gifts
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 …
Networks of Empire
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 …
Law and Colonial Cultures
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. …
Law and Colonial Cultures
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. …
The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia
European markets almost exclusively relied on Caribbean sugar produced by slave labor until abolitionist campaigns began around 1800. Thereafter, importing Asian sugar and …