Deze serie duikt in diverse samenlevingen door de tijd heen en verkent universele thema's door verschillende culturele lenzen. Elk deel combineert de diepgang van sociaalwetenschappelijk onderzoek met een wereldwijde reikwijdte, die talrijke volkeren en regio's bestrijkt. De boeken integreren inzichten uit economie, antropologie en sociologie. Ze zijn geschreven om toegankelijk en boeiend te zijn, en bieden zowel studenten als specialisten een meeslepend perspectief op de menselijke geschiedenis.
This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern world. It highlights little-known linkages between Asia and the Atlantic world.
This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern world. It highlights little-known linkages between Asia and the Atlantic world.
A novel analysis that looks at early Southeast Asian history in terms of integration and collapse. schovat popis
Focusing on the interplay between institutions and culture, this book explores their critical roles in shaping the international legal order. It emphasizes how cultural contexts influence legal frameworks and institutional effectiveness, providing a nuanced understanding of global governance. Through in-depth analysis, the author illustrates the significance of these elements in fostering cooperation and compliance among nations, ultimately contributing to a more stable and just international system.
This examination of the Dutch East India Company grapples with the theoretical nature of empire, examines how empires exist through the movement and control of people within their realms, and proposes a new concept of diaspora, demonstrating how all empires have unique networks of free and forced migration.
Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800-1830, Volume 2: Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands
By integrating detailed case studies with broader theoretical frameworks, the book aims to reexamine and reinterpret a millennium of Eurasian history. It offers a fresh perspective on historical narratives, encouraging readers to explore the complexities and interconnections that have shaped the region over the past thousand years.
This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century through the eighteenth century.
In this book, Ulbe Bosma details how the British and Dutch introduced the sugar plantation model in Asia around 1800, when abolitionist campaigns in the Caribbean began, and refashioned it over time. Previously, European markets had almost exclusively relied on Caribbean sugar produced by slave labor.