Colonialism and imperialism Books

Book SynopsisThe Maji Maji war of 1905-07 in Tanzania was the largest African rebellion against European colonialism. This volume offers the fullest account of the war in the English language. Using oral accounts and little-used documentary evidence, contributors offer detailed histories of districts and localities as well as groups, such as African soldiers in the German army, elephant hunters and women, whose roles in war have been neglected. The contributors examine varieties of communication during wartime, including the circulation of rumor between Africans and Germans. They also offer new insight into the most famous aspect of the war – the use of medicine which was believed to provide invulnerability. The contributors are historians and an archaeologist recognized as authorities on Tanzanian history.Trade Review'This impressive collection of essays attempts to supplement and broader the historical data on this important event, extending the period of the study of the war to as early as 1902 and as late as 1910, and broadening the area of conflict far beyond the area earlier studied, most notably far to the west of its purported centre of origins. The new and richly detailed information its contributors provide alters our earlier understanding of the war, not only in terms of new material, but important in terms of showing how much more complex and varied are the questions still to be asked about this conflict. Even our understanding of the name of the war is changed.' T.O. Beidelman in Anthropos 106 (2011)

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Book SynopsisBuilding on the foundational work of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, the essays contained in Living the End of Empire offer a nuanced and complex picture of the late-colonial period in Zambia. The present volume, based on untapped archival material and sources that have emerged in recent years, throws new light on some of the historical trajectories that the teleological gaze of nationalist scholars tended to ignore or belittle. By bringing to view the deep-rooted tensions underlying the Zambian nationalist movement, the painful dilemmas faced by chiefly and religious institutions, and the contradictory experiences of European and Asian minorities, Living the End of Empire draws inspiration from – and contributes to – a growing literature that is concerned with the study of social, political and cultural forces that did not readily fit into the then dominant narratives of united anti-colonial struggles.Trade Review'This well-integrated collection honors senior Zambianist historian Andrew Roberts (who contributes an introductory overview) without trying to encompass his manifold interests. It attains greater coherence than a typical festschrift by focusing on the last years of colonialism, particularly the contentious Central African Federation era of c.1953-63. Solid individual chapters cover European setters; the Indian community; the political roles of the Catholic Church, traditional chiefs, and labor unions; and early US diplomatic contacts. Christopher Annear's essay on the Luapula River fishery notably advances the ongoing restudy of classic Rhodes-Livingstone Institute ethnographies. Perhaps most significant is coeditor Macola's revisionist view of pioneering nationalist leader Harry Nkumbula, crediting him with more astuteness and dedication than standard accounts. The editors dispute conventional views of an inevitable triumph by Kenneth Kaunda's United National Independence Party, which governed from 1964 to 1991. They emphasize clashing political visions among urban migrant elites in Lusaka, the Copperbelt and its northern hinterland, and Southern Province peasant producers represented by Nkumbula. This volume steers Zambian history in fruitful new directions and provides valuable components of any new consensus that may emerge. Summing Up: Recommended. Academic and large public libraries; all levels. -- T. P. Johnson, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Reviewed in 2012 mar CHOICE. 'This edited volume seeks to portray the complexity of late colonial history in Zambia. It accomplishes this goal by shedding light on conflicts in the nationalist movement, chiefly and religious institutions and experiences of Western and Asian communities.....The narrative character makes this volume an enjoyable read'. Esther Uzar, University of Basel, in 'African Studies Quarterly', Volume 13, Issue 3, Summer 2012 'The book makes a very effective contribution to the history of modern Zambia. It also makes for delightful reading, typical of those young historians of this part of Africa who refer to themselves as Zambianists and who also include their teacher among their number. Otakar Hulec, in Oriental Archive, No. 81, 2013Table of ContentsContents Dedication ...................................................................................................................vii Andrew D. Roberts: An Appreciation ......................................................................ix John McCracken Background 1. Introduction: A New Take on Late Colonial Northern Rhodesia ....................3 Giacomo Macola, Jan-Bart Gewald and Marja Hinfelaar 2. Northern Rhodesia: The Post-War Background, 1945–1953 ..........................15 Andrew D. Roberts The Polyphony of African Nationalism 3. Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula and the Formation of ZANC/UNIP: A Reinterpretation ......27 Giacomo Macola 4. Traditional Rulers, Nationalists and the Quest for Freedom in Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s ...........67 Walima T. Kalusa 5. The Realization of a Catholic Social Doctrine in the Context of the Rise of Nationalism in Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s ...............................91 Marja Hinfelaar 6. Odd Man Out: Labour, Politics and Dixon Konkola ...................................111 Kenneth P. Vickery The Unsettled World of Settlers 7. Proletarians in Paradise: The Historiography and Historical Sociology of White Miners on the Copperbelt....141 Ian Phimister 8. Rivers of White: David Livingstone and the 1955 Commemorations in the Lost ‘Henley-upon-Thames of Central Africa’ ...................................161 Joanna Lewis 9. Fears and Fantasies in Northern Rhodesia, 1950–1960 ...............................207 Jan-Bart Gewald 10. Indian Political Activism in Colonial Zambia: The Case of Livingstone’s Indian Traders ...................229 Friday Mufuzi 11. Cinemas, Spices and Sport: Recollections of Hindu Life in 1950s Northern Rhodesia ....................249 Joan M. Haig Participating Observers 12. Historiography on the Luapula: Ian Cunnison’s ‘fi shing area’, Mweru-Luapula, 1948–1959.......................273 Christopher M. Annear 13. Frances Bolton, Margaret Tibbetts and the US Relations with the Rhodesian Federation, 1950–1960 .......299 Andrew J. DeRoche About the Authors ....................................................................................................327 Index ..........................................................................................................................329

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Book SynopsisThis volume, intended to complement Hotta-Lister’s original 1999 study, marks the centenary of London’s 1910 great Japan-British Exhibition, which was held at White City, Shepherd’s Bush, and attracted over eight million visitors during its six-month stay. While the initiative came from Britain, the Japanese Government was the major source of funding for the Japanese side of the Exhibition. Using the Anglo-Japanese Alliance as its springboard, Japan – at the time a new colonial power – hoped to bring about a greater understanding of its cultures and traditions and thereby stimulate trade and commerce between the two countries. In the event, the Japanese press, unlike the British press, took umbrage at what they considered the trivialization of Japanese culture, thus in part frustrating the positive cultural, commercial and political outcomes that were hoped for. Eighteen months later, Emperor Meiji died and the Great War of 1914-18 followed soon after, thereby relegating the exhibition – its origins, composition, relevance and impact – to oblivion until recent times. The papers in this volume, therefore, drawn from four ‘centenary conferences’ held in London and Tokyo, offer an important spotlight on the exhibition’s legacy – specifically in the contexts of commerce and culture. The contents include the following themes: The Exhibition and domestic conditions in Britain and Japan; the Exhibition and Japan’s economic background; selling the ‘backward’ Japanese economy; imperialism and the Exhibition; the Japanese media and the Exhibition; the arts of Britain and Japan; Ainu in London; Japanese fine art; the human legacy; Japanese gardens. This book has wide inter-disciplinary relevance for students in modern East Asian Studies, but especially in the context of colonial and economic history, inter-cultural exchange and Anglo-Japanese relations.Trade ReviewThe fifteen chapters of Commerce and Culture at the 1910- Japan-British Exhibition analyze divers aspects of the exhibition from multiple academic perspectives. […] the papers of Ian Nish, Peter O’Conner and Keiko Itoh are of special interest as they place [the exhibition] in a broader context. […] This reviewer learned a great deal from Commerce and Culture at the 1910- Japan-British Exhibition. Sano Mayuko in Japan Review Nr. 28 (2015), pp. 261-261.

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Book SynopsisIn Geweld in de West bieden tien auteurs onder redactie van Victor Enthoven, Henk den Heijer en Han Jordaan een overzicht van het Nederlandse militaire optreden in het Atlantische gebied tussen 1600 en 1800. De verovering van Indiaanse gebieden, de strijd tussen rivaliserende Europese machten en de gewelddadige slavenhandel zijn diep verankerd in de Atlantische geschiedenis. Ook Nederland heeft daaraan zijn steentje bijgedragen, maar daar is weinig over bekend. In dit boek worden diverse aspecten van die militaire aanwezigheid belicht. Zo wordt de inzet van niet-Nederlandse strijdkrachten overzee beschreven en wordt ingegaan op gewelddadige excessen die zich hebben afgespeeld. De thema’s militaire organisaties, militaire expedities en militaire cultuur vormen het hart van deze Atlantische studie.Table of ContentsGeweld in de West Inhoudsopgave Lijst van kaarten en afbeeldingen Inleiding 1. De Nederlandse Atlantische wereld in militaire context, 1585-1800 Victor Enthoven, Henk den Heijer en Han Jordaan I MILITAIRE ORGANISATIES 2. Wapenvolk in een wingewest. De slavenkolonie Suriname, 1667-1799 Jean Jacques Vrij 3. Krijgsvolk in Elmina. Asafo, garnizoen en tapoeyerkwartier, 1700-1815 Natalie Everts 4. De vrijen en de Curacaose defensie, 1791-1800 Han Jordaan II MILITAIR OPTREDEN 5. De binnenlandse oorlogen in Suriname in de achttiende eeuw Wim Hoogbergen 6. 'Wij beleeven hier droevige tyden'. Europeanen, indianen en Afrikanen in de Berbice slavenopstand, 1763-1764 Marjoleine Kars III MARITIEM OPTREDEN 7. Het 'Groot Desseyn' en de aanval op Elmina in 1625 Henk den Heijer 8. 'Sijt ghekommandeert te zeijlen na de Kust van Ghenee'. Expeditionair optreden op de kust van West-Afrika, 1664-1665 Adri van Vliet IV MILITAIRE CULTUUR 9. Nederlands-Braziliaans militair inlichtingenwerk van de West-Indische compagnie, 1629-1654 Ben Teensma 10. Marteling, muiterij en beeldenstorm. Militair geweld in de Nederlandse Atlantische wereld, 1624-1654 Wim Klooster Over de auteurs Register

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Book SynopsisTrading enterprise figures prominently in Indonesian history. Commercial activities penetrated deep into the economy, politics and society of the former Netherlands Indies. Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java describes this, largely forgotten, world of commerce. During the period 1800-1942 this vanished world was, however, bustling. Merchants of very different background and stature cooperated and competed with each other. Trading relations were forged and dissolved, contracts were honoured and broken, fortunes were made and lost. Using unpublished archival sources in Indonesia and the Netherlands Alexander Claver recounts the diverse trading mechanisms, complex credit relations and countless participants involved. How Dutch, Chinese, and Arab traders related to each other in such demanding business environment is the fascinating story of this book.Trade Review"...significant theoretical contributions to the field of overseas-Chinese studies." – Guo-Quan Seng, in Journal of Chinese Overseas 12 (2016), p. 158-161.

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Book SynopsisIn In the Name of God biblical scholars and historians begin the exciting work of deconstructing British and Spanish imperial usage of the Bible as well as the use of the Bible to counteract imperialism. Six essays explore the intersections of political movements and biblical exegesis. Individual contributions examine English political theorists' use of the Bible in the context of secularisation, analyse the theological discussion of discoveries in the New World in a context of fraught Jewish-Christian relations in Europe and dissect millennarian preaching in the lead up to the Crimean War. Others investigate the anti-imperialist use of the Bible in southern Africa, compare Spanish and British biblicisation techniques and trace the effects of biblically-rooted articulations of nationalism on the development of Hinduism's relationship to the Vedas. Contributors include: Yvonne Sherwood, Ana Valdez, Mark Somos, Andrew Mein, Hendrik Bosman and Hugh Pyper.Trade Review"I find this volume to be wonderfully challenging of overly repeated stereotypes in “postcolonial” discussions. There is a general motif of “not so fast” running through this entire volume that is challenging and refreshing. Whether or not one agrees with the arguments put forward—and I suspect there will be considerable debate—this volume succeeds in prodding thought and that, one hopes, will generate more discussion. We owe a great deal of thanks to the writers and editors of this important book." Daniel L. Smith-Christopher, Loyola Marymount University

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Book SynopsisIn Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913, Lindsay Frederick Braun explores the technical processes and struggles surrounding the creation and maintenance of boundaries and spaces in South Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The precision of surveyors and other colonial technicians lent these enterprises an illusion of irreproachable objectivity and authority, even though the reality was far messier. Using a wide range of archival and printed materials from survey departments, repositories, and libraries, the author presents two distinct episodes of struggle over lands and livelihoods, one from the Eastern Cape and one from the former northern Transvaal. These cases expose the contingencies, contests, and negotiations that fundamentally shaped these changing South African landscapes.Trade Review'Braun (Univ. of Oregon) examines the role of surveyors and cartographers in remaking the landscape of rural South Africa between the 1850s and the Natives Land Act (1913). Analyzing the complex and multivalent lenses through which Africans understood, responded to, and resisted these imagined and physical alterations to the landscape, Braun seeks to recover the participation of Africans in these processes without reducing or simplifying their motivations and worldviews to “communalism.” C. V. Reed, Elizabeth City State University, in CHOICE July 2015 vol. 52 no. 11 'Lindsay Frederick Braun’s outstanding book makes a significant contribution to South African history. He enters the later part of the nineteenth century through the unusual portals of surveying and cartography; drawing on many neglected and underutilized sources'. Norman Etherington, University of Western Australia, in Journal of African History, Vol. 57.3 'Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes adds an important, hitherto missing dimension to South African historiography – the history of surveying, an important cog in the establishment of colonial power. It will sit proudly beside such works as Colin Murray’s Black Mountain (1992) for close attention to landscape'. Peter Limb, Michigan State University, in Canadian Journal of African Studies, June 2016 “Braun’s book is an unconventional social and political history of two rural areas in South Africa narrated along the lines of the colonial constitution of a seemingly hegemonic cadastral landscape. … [It] contributes to a history of cartography beyond positivism. Particularly commendable is his inclusion of maps that remained pure fantasy, given that they depict a territorial order that was never implemented. It reminds historians of the need to treat geographical archives with the utmost care and remain sceptical of maps as privileged archival objects.” Giorgio Miescher, University of Basel, University of Namibia, in Journal of Southern African Studies, Volume 44, 2018, DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2018.1452385Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Terminology and Usage List of Illustrations and Maps Abbreviations and Initialisms 1. Introduction: The Construction of Colonial Terrritory PART I: Imagining Lands without Chiefs 2. Redefining Land and Location in the Eastern Cape 3. “Cut Into Little Bits”: Engineering Social Order 4. Survey and Mediation in Fingoland PART II: Locating the Enduring Kingdom 5. The Notional Republic 6. “Before, the Entire Land Was Ramabulana” 7. The Fall and Rise of Mphephu 8. Objections and Objectives: SANAC, the Tsewu Case, and the Land Act Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Representing Empire Ying Xiong examines Japanese-language colonial literature written by Japanese expatriate writers in Taiwan and Manchuria. Drawing on a wide range of Japanese and Chinese sources, Representing Empire reveals not only a nuanced picture of Japanese literary terrain but also the interplay between imperialism, nationalism, and Pan-Asianism in the colonies. While the existing literature on Japanese nationalism has largely remained within the confines of national history, by using colonial literature as an example, Ying Xiong demonstrates that transnational forces shaped Japanese nationalism in the twentieth century. With its multidisciplinary and comparative approach, Representing Empire adds to a growing body of literature that challenges traditional interpretations of Japanese nationalism and national literary canon. “Representing Empire is an outstanding accomplishment, at once making clearer and complicating our understandings of the literary worlds of Manchuria and Taiwan, and the greater imperial empire within which all were transformed. … add[s] substantially to the ways in which Japan’s empire and twentieth century East Asian history more generally might be interpreted.” Norman Smith, University of Guelph, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center Publication (February, 2015)Trade Review"Ying examines (sometimes in very great detail!) the complex and often fraught relationships these two ex-patriot native sons develop vis-à-vis empire. [...] the author’s choice to expand the traditional focus of literary histories to include Japanese writers living in colonies brings a welcome sense of empathy and nuance from writers living among the colonized, who were themselves struggling with what might be seen as a “negative national” identity. Ying’s volume opens up broad perspectives on the complex ambivalences that can emerge in different corners of the same empire, and invites us to give further consideration to the dynamics and effects of political, and literary, imperialism in fresh new ways." J. Scott Miller, Brigham Young University, Recherche Littéraire / Literary Research 33 (Summer 2017) "This volume is a significant contribution to the growing body of scholarship on East Asian literatures that examines [Japanese-language colonial literature written by Japanese expatriate writers in Taiwan and Manchuria] in broader transnational and comparative focus... with great skill, [Xiong] offer[s] a timely contribution to the field of comparative East Asian literatures." Karen Thornber, Harvard University, The Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 42.2 (Summer 2016) “Representing Empire is an outstanding accomplishment, at once making clearer and complicating our understandings of the literary worlds of Manchuria and Taiwan, and the greater imperial empire within which all were transformed. … add[s] substantially to the ways in which Japan’s empire and twentieth century East Asian history more generally might be interpreted.” Norman Smith, University of Guelph, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center Publication (February, 2015) "Representing Empire contributes in new ways to our understanding of colonial literature and identity formation in East Asia. Rather than the nation-state paradigm, the volume uses the interactions and transcultural forces within the East Asian domain to explore the larger forces of imperialism and nationalism and the ways that writers constructed their identities and engaged in their activities." Rosemary Haddon, Massey University, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, Vol 17.1 (June 2015) "Ying Xiong's monograph contributes immensely to our understanding of knowledge production across the Japanese empire. Drawing on a wealth of highly original Japanese and Chinese primary sources—such as colonial literary journals that published literary criticism of local works or Japanese translations of Chinese literature—her study will be of great use to scholars in Chinese as well as Japanese literary or social studies... Ying Xiong not only transcends conventional disciplinary boundaries, but more importantly helps overcome linguistic limitations that many of us with a working knowledge in one Asian language might face when embarking on comparative Sino-Japanese research... Xiong's grasp of the materials treated in this fascinating monograph is impressive." Frederik H. Green, San Fransisco State University, China Review International, Vol. 21.1 (2014)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction Part I Exoticising the Other, Reinenting the Self Chapter One: National Literature and Beyond Chapter Two: Local Discovered Chapter Three: National Lineage Reinvented Part II: Pan-Asianism Unrealised Chapter Four: Between Imperialism and Pan-Asianism Imperialial Chapter Five: Literature in the Name of National Harmony Chapter Six: Translating Texts, Transforming Identities Part III: Re-mapping the Empire: Japan, Taiwan, and Manchukuo Chapter Seven: Imperial Knowledge and Colonial Power Chapter Eight: Romanticising the Empire Chapter Nine: Local Literature in Ambivalence Conclusion: Japanese Nationalism and its Discontents Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this biography Nico J.G. Kaptein studies the life and times of Sayyid ʿUthman (1822-1914), the most prominent Muslim scholar of his era in the Netherlands East Indies. During his long career, he provided guidance to the Muslim community and from 1889 onwards simultaneously served the colonial government as advisor for Muslim affairs after the famous C. Snouck Hurgronje had engaged him. Based on an analysis of his writings, Kaptein focuses on the question of how Sayyid ʿUthman viewed the place of Islam in the colonial state and the many reactions this provoked, both nationally and internationally, e.g. from the Cairo-based reformist Rashid Rida. For an online exhibition on "Sayyid ʿUthman of Batavia (1822-1914): A Life in the Service of Islam and Colonial Rule", see: http://www.library.leiden.edu/special-collections/special/sayyid-uthman-exhibition-now-online.htmlTrade Review'This nicely conceived and clearly written account of Sayyid ‘Uthman’s life and times makes for a smooth and very informative read.' – Niels Mulder, in New Asia Books (2016).

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Book SynopsisIn The Crown, the Court and the Casa da Índia, Susannah Humble Ferreira examines the social and political context that gave rise to the Portuguese Overseas Empire during the reigns of João II (1481-95) and Manuel I (1495-1521). In particular the book elucidates the role of the Portuguese royal household in the political consolidation of Portugal in this period. By looking at the relationship of the Manueline Reforms, the expulsion of the Jews and the creation of the Santa Casa da Misericordia to the political threat brought on by the expansion of Ferdinand of Aragon into the Mediterranean, the author re-evaluates the place of the overseas expansion in the policies of the Portuguese crown.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements ix List of Abbreviations x Names and Currency xi Introduction 1 1 Spin Doctors of the Crown: The Chroniclers and Their Contexts 17 Fernao Lopes, (Crónista Mor 1434–54) 20 Gomes Eanes de Zurara, (Crónista Mor 1454–74) 22 Dr. Vasco Fernandes de Lucena, (Crónista Mor 1474–97) 26 Rui de Pina, (Crónista Mor 1497–1522) 30 Duarte Galvao 37 Joao de Barros and Damiao de Gois 39 2 From Royal Household to Royal Court: Patronage as a Political Strategy 44 Political Utility of Large Households 45 Limitation of Household Size 46 ‘New Monarch’ or King of the Roads? 54 Reorganization and Expansion of the Royal Household 58 3 Inquiry and Reform 69 Return of the Exiles 71 Expulsion of Jews and Muslims 75 The Manueline Reforms 79 Bureaucratization and Plural Appointments 84 Re-routing the Court: Palaces and Itineraries 92 4 Alms for the King 101 Controlling the Episcopacy 102 Hospitals and Confraternities 108 The Order of Christ and the Conquest of Morocco (1495–1510) 120 5 The Crown and Its Castles 128 Castles and Councillors 130 Changes to Warfare at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century 140 North Africa 142 Death of Ferdinand of Aragon 147 Estado da India 148 Conclusion 157 Bibliography 171 Index 182

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Book SynopsisIn White Lies and Black Markets, Fatah-Black offers a new account of the colonization of Suriname—one of the major European plantation colonies on the Guiana Coast—in the period between 1650-1800. While commonly portrayed as an isolated tropical outpost, this study places the colony in the context of its connections to the rest of the Atlantic world. These economic and migratory links assured the colony’s survival, but also created many incentives to evade the mercantilistically inclined metropolitan authorities. By combining the available data on Dutch and North American shipping with accounts of major political and economic developments, the author uncovers a hitherto hidden world of illicit dealings, and convincingly argues that these illegal practices were essential to the development and survival of the colony, and woven into the fabric of the colonial project itself.Trade Review"Fatah-Black’s work is important and valuable in moving this interesting phase of Surinamese history away from being thought of in terms of colonial or frontier history and seeing it instead as the study of Atlantic nodes of interaction in an integrating Atlantic economic network of trade, both legal and illegal." — Trevor Burnard, University of Melbourne, in: Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis / The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, 13:2 (2016), pp.103–104 "Karwan Fatah-Black’s White Lies and Black Markets provides a convincing case study, giving fascinating insights into the development of the early modern Dutch colony of Suriname as a product of – largely illegal – transimperial Atlantic connections." — Felicia Gottmann, in: Journal of World History, 29:4 (2018), pp. 574-584

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Book SynopsisBeginning 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 contagious old world crowd diseases such as smallpox and measles. Epidemics that occurred about once a generation killed thousands. Despite severe mortality crises such as epidemics, warfare, and famine, the native populations living on the missions recovered. An analysis of the effects of epidemics and demographic patterns shows that the native populations living on the Paraguay and Chiquitos missions survived and retained a unique ethnic identity. A comparative approach that considers demographic patterns among other mission populations place the case study of the Paraguay and Chiquitos missions into context, and show how patterns on the Paraguay and Chiquitos missions differed from other mission populations. The findings challenge generally held assumptions about Native American historical demography.Trade Review"The text will be of great use to scholars of not only the Jesuit missions but also other orders who worked among the native populations throughout the Americas. As a result of Jackson’s meticulous study of Jesuit records, those interested in the history of medicine, environment, and social conditions in the missions will find in this book a great deal to enjoy." - Bridget María Chesterton, in: Hispanic American Historical Review, 91:1 (2017), pp. 157-158 [doi 10.1215/00182168-3727599] "Es una contribución al debate desarrollado en el marco de la Nueva Historia Misional. Desde hace varias décadas diversos autores norteamericanos, entre los cuales está el propio Robert Jackson, han se˜nalado la importancia de analizar las consecuencias de las misiones para la población indígena y han subrayado, en particular, la importancia de estudiar el cambio demográfico. Algunos investigadores han concedido un peso determinante a elementos ligados al medio ambiente: sequías, cambio climático, presencia de ganado, entre otros. El autor de este libro considera relevantes estos factores, para se˜nalar que la principal razón de la caída de la población indígena fueron las epidemias, en su opinión la gravedad de sus efectos no se reduce al siglo XVI, siguió teniendo incidencia significativa durante los siglos XVII y XVIII, como lo demuestra en este estudio." - María Teresa Álvarez Icaza Longoria, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, in: Estudios de Historia Novohispana, 54 (2016), pp. 103–105 "...it is a tour de force of demographic history and helps revise the “Indians are coming to an end” myth. It will be of interest to Río de la Plata specialists, historical demographers, and historians of New Spain’s northern frontiers." - Shawn Michael Austin, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies, 3:1 (2016), pp. 102-104 [DOI: 10.1163/22141332-00301005-05] "By selecting such a late terminus ad quem (almost half a century after suppression of the Jesuits within the Spanish empire by order of King Charles III in 1767), the author is able to demonstrate the degree to which the mission settlements of the Guaranì in particular, and the Chiquitos Indians to a lesser extent, survived, despite significant out-migration, so that, to this day, their descendants still inhabit many of the sites of the ex-mission towns.[...] a significant contribution to the ongoing debate over the long-term implications of 1492 for the indigenous population of the Americas." - Simon Ditchfield, in: The English Historical Review, 132:559 (2017), pp. 1601–1602 [https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cew358]Table of ContentsGeneral Editor’s Foreword List of Illustrations List of Maps List of Figures List of Tables Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Managing the Missions and Social-Cultural Change Chapter 3: Smallpox Epidemics and Smallpox Treatment Chapter 4: Demographic Patterns on the Paraguay and Chiquitos Mission Frontiers Chapter 5: Mission Demographic Patterns among Sedentary and Non-Sedentary Natives on the Frontiers of Spanish America: A Comparative Discussion Chapter 6: Post Jesuit Expulsion Population Trends Chapter 7: Conclusions Appendices Appendix 1: Population of the Paraguay Missions Appendix 2: Females as a Percentage of the Total Population of the Paraguay Missions Appendix 3: Marriages Recorded in the Paraguay Missions, in selected years Appendix4: Vital Rates of the Paraguay Missions Appendix5: Population of the Chiquitos Missions Appendix 6: Females as a percentage of the total population of the Chiquitos Missions Appendix 7: Marriages Recorded in the Chiquitos Missions in selected years Appendix 8: Vital Rates of the Chiquitos Missions Appendix 9: Castillian Weights and Measures Mentioned in the Text Appendix 10: A Note on colonial Spanish American Silver Coins Appendix 11: Area Measurements of Agricultural Land in Spanish America Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume examines the experience of World War I of small nations, defined here in terms of their relative weakness vis-à-vis the major actors in European diplomacy, and colonial peripheries, encompassing areas that were subject to colonial rule by European empires and thus located far from the heartland of these empires. The chapters address subject nations within Europe, such as Ireland and Poland; neutral states, such as Sweden and Spain; and overseas colonies like Tunisia, Algeria and German East Africa. By combining analyses of both European and extra-European experiences of war, this collection of essays provides a unique comparative perspective on World War I and points the way towards an integrated history of small nations and colonial peripheries. Contributors are Steven Balbirnie, Gearóid Barry, Jens Boysen, Ingrid Brühwiler, William Buck, AUde Chanson, Enrico Dal Lago, Matias Gardin, Richard Gow, Florian Grafl, Dónal Hassett, Guido Hausmann, Róisín Healy, Conor Morrissey, Michael Neiberg, David Noack, Chris Rominger, Danielle Ross and Christine Strotmann.Trade Review"[...] this edited volume, taken from Brill’s History of Warfare series, makes a valuable contribution to the impact of the war on smaller nations and ‘colonial peripheries’. Based on conference proceedings, and incorporating the work of junior scholars alongside more established names, the volume presents a pleasingly eclectic selection of papers." Martin J. Bayly, London School of Economics and Political Science, in: International Journal of Military History and Historiography 37.2 (2017).Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix List of Contributors x Part 1 Shifting Identities in the Global War 1 Towards an Interconnected History of World War i: Europe and Beyond 1 Gearoid Barry, Enrico Dal Lago and Roisin Healy 2 The Revolutionary Program of the German Empire: The Case of Ireland 19 Christine Strotmann 3 “I Want Citizens’ Clothes”: Irish and German-Americans Respond to War, 1914–1917 37 Michael S. Neiberg Part 2 Small Nations 4 Protestant Nationalists and the Irish Conscription Crisis, 1918 55 Conor Morrissey 5 Pow s and Civilian Internees in Ireland During World War I 73 William Buck 6 Neutral Allies or Immoral Pariahs? Scandinavian Neutrality, International Law and Great Power Politics in World War I 92 Michael Jonas 7 Civil and Military Relations in Spain in the Context of World War I 107 Richard Gow 8 World War i and Its Impact on Catalonia 125 Florian Grafl 9 Fabricating National Unity in Torn Contexts: World War I in the Multilingual Countries of Switzerland and Luxembourg 140 Ingrid Bruhwiler and Matias Gardin 10 Imperial Service, Alienation, and an Unlikely National “Rebirth”: The Poles in World War i 157 Jens Boysen 11 The Ukrainian Moment of World War i 177G uido Hausmann Part 3 Colonial Peripheries 12 Small War on a Violent Frontier: Colonial Warfare and British Intervention in Northern Russia, 1918–1919 193 Steven Balbirnie 13 Fighting for the Tsar, Fighting against the Tsar: The Use of Folk Culture to Mobilize the Tatar Population during World War I and the Russian Revolution (1914–1921) 211 Danielle Ross 14 Continuing the Great Game: Turkestan as a German Objective in World War i 230 David X. Noack 15 Paths Not Taken: Mukhtar Al-Ayari and Alternative Voices in Post-War Tunisia 245 Chris Rominger 16 Defijining Imperial Citizenship in the Shadow of World War I: Equality and Diffference in the Debates around Post-War Colonial Reform in Algeria 263 Donal Hassett 17 German East Africa: A Territory and People in World War I 281 Aude Chanson Index 2933

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Book SynopsisAnnexation 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 reading of multiple agents and their actions. It explores how the political and administrative incorporation of territory (i.e., annexation) by East India Company informs the conversion of intra-cultural distinctions into socio-historical conflicts among the colonized and colonizers. The book focuses on colonial direct rule, rather than the more commonly studied indirect rule, of South Asia. It socio-culturally explores how agents, perspectives and intentions vary—both within and across regions—to impact the actions and structures of colonial governance.Trade Review'Annexation and the Unhappy Valley represents what can be achieved when anthropologists turn their critical inter-disciplinary eye on the past. [...] it contributes hugely to our collective grasp of a key turning-point in Sindh’s history, as well as offering historians additional theoretical models and approaches with which to enhance their own disciplinary methodologies.' Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London), in: South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, Online since 10 March 2017. URL: http://samaj.revues.org/4287. 'Today, only a few scholars can match Cook’s depth of knowledge when it comes to this, often overlooked, research field and his monograph is a crucial step for us to understand Sindh’s past and present. Notwithstanding somewhat technical parts, the author’s effort to link the plane of colonial decision making in the 19th century with the particular circumstances of the individual actors involved renders the book an intriguing read. In the Appendix, Cook speaks about this methodological decision when he emphasizes the importance of the “situatedness” of his historical sources. His historical-anthropological methodology (visible in the book’s title) not only allows deep insights into the protagonists’ complex life-worlds but also yields a capturing read.' Jürgen Schaflechner (Heidelberg University), Itinerario, Vol. 42, No. 3 (2018), pp. 557-559, doi:10.1017/S0165115318000694Table of ContentsGeneral Editor’s Foreword ... viii A Note on the Spelling of Sindh ... xi Cast of Characters and Glossary ... xii Illustrations ... xvi Acknowledgements ... xxiv Introduction ... 1 1 Merchants and the East India Company in Sindh ... 21 2 Conspiracy and Military-Fiscalism ... 69 3 Just Governance and Colonial Violence ... 133 4 Court Over Board ... 180 Afterword ... 224 Appendix: Anthropology, Context and Archives ... 229 Bibliography ... 241 Index ... 255

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Book SynopsisBritish Communism and the Politics of Race explores the role that the Communist Party of Great Britain played within the anti-racism movement in Britain from the 1940s to the 1980s. As one of the first organisations to undertake serious anti-colonial and anti-racist activism within the British labour movement, the CPGB was a pioneering force that campaigned against racial discrimination, popular imperialism and fascist violence in British society. The book examines the balancing act that the Communist Party negotiated in its anti-racist work, between making appeals to the labour movement to get involved in the fight against racism and working with Britain's ethnic minority communities, who often felt let down by the trade unions and the Labour Party. Transitioning from a class-based outlook to an embrace of the new social movements of the 1960s–70s, the CPGB played an important role in the anti-racist struggle, but by the 1980s, it was eclipsed by more radical and diverse activist organisations.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction  Themes  Shifting Away from the Centrality of Class  Thinking Intersectionally about the CPGB and the Politics of ‘Race’  Situating the Party’s Anti-racism within the Wider Scholarship  A Note on Methodology  Book Structure 1 The End of Empire and the Windrush Moment, 1945–60  The Communist Party’s Anti-colonial Traditions  The CPGB and the Era of Decolonisation  Left Nationalism and the Postwar CPGB  The Response of the Communist Party to Commonwealth Migration  The Campaign Against Polish Resettlement  The Legacy of the ‘Battle of Cable Street’ and the CPGB’s Postwar Anti-fascism  Anti-fascist Action against the Fascist Revival of the Union Movement, 1945–51  The Impact of Commonwealth Migrants upon the Party’s Anti-colonial/Anti-racist Outlook  The Nationality Branches  Conclusion 2 Anti-racism and Building the ‘Mass Party’, 1960–9  The Communist Party, Labour and Immigration Controls  The Principle of Immigration Controls  The Campaign for Legislation against Racial Discrimination  The Race Relations Acts Under Labour, 1965–8  The CPGB’s Concept of ‘Race’ in the Post-Colonial Era  The Movement for Colonial Freedom and Moderate Anti-racism  The Beginnings of the ‘British Upturn’ and the Radicalism of ‘1968’  The Trade Unions and Race  The Rise of New Social Movements and Black Radicalism  The Link with International Issues  Capitulating to Racism: Labour and the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968  Integration and ‘Good Race Relations’: The 1968 Race Relations Act  Powellism and the Rise of the National Front  Conclusion 3 The Crisis Emerges, 1970–5  The 1971 Immigration Act and Opposition to the Conservative Government  The Communist Party and the Reaction of the Trade Unions to the Immigration Act  Facing the Limits of Industrial Militancy  The Ugandan Asian ‘Controversy’ and the Rise of the National Front under the Conservatives  The ‘No Platform’ Strategy  Red Lion Square and the Death of Kevin Gately  The Trade Union Response to Fascism and Racism in the 1970s  Asian Workers and the Trade Unions in the Early 1970s: Mansfield Hosiery Mills and Imperial Typewriters  Conclusion 4 The Great Moving Right Show, 1976–9  The Building of the Broad Democratic Alliance  The Grunwick Strike  Intersectionality and the British Labour Movement  Policing the Labour Movement  The NF’s Shift to the Streets and the Rise of the Asian Youth Movements  The Rise of the SWP and the Revival of Militant Anti-fascism  The ‘Battle of Lewisham’  ‘The National Front is a Nazi Front’: The Anti-Nazi League, 1977–9  Rock Against Racism  The ANL and the Wider British left  Southall and the Death of Blair Peach  ‘Feeling Rather Swamped’: Thatcher and the Exploitation of Popular Racism  Conclusion 5 Babylon’s Burning: Into the 1980s  Further Defeats for the CPGB  The Police and the Black Communities  From Southall to Brixton: The Violent Reaction to the Police Under Thatcher  ‘Crisis in the Inner Cities’: The Communist Party’s Reaction  The 1981 Riots as Social Protest  Lord Scarman’s Report and the Denial of Institutional Racism  The Broad Democratic Alliance and Municipal Anti-racism  The ‘Limits’ of Trade Unionism in the 1980s  The Push for Black Sections/Caucuses within the Labour Movement  The End of the Party  Conclusion Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Globalization and the Colonial Origins of the Great Divergence Pim de Zwart examines the Dutch East India Company’s intercontinental trade and its effects on living standards in various regions on the edges of the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Contrary to conventional views, De Zwart finds significant evidence of the integration of global commodity markets, an important dimension of globalization, before the 1800s. The effects of this globalization, and the associated colonialism, were diverse and could vary between and within regions. As globalization and colonialism affected patterns of economic development across the globe they played a part in the rise of global economic inequality, known as the ‘Great Divergence’, in the early modern period.Table of ContentsPreface ... vii List of Figures, Tables and Maps ... viii 1 Introduction ... 1 2 Early Modern Globalization ... 31 3 Prices and Consumption Patterns ... 78 4 Wages and the Standard of Living ... 118 5 Population, Households and Labour Markets ... 152 6 Conclusion ... 195 Appendices Appendix 1: Weights and Measures ... 207 Appendix 2: Coins and Silver Values ... 210 Appendix 3: Kcal and Protein ... 213 Appendix 4: Creating the Price Series ... 214 Appendix 5: An Alternative Method for Dealing with Gaps in the Price Data ... 232 Appendix 6: The Wage Data ... 235 Appendix 7: Estimating Population Trends for Ceylon ... 248 Appendix 8: Occupational Structure of Ceylon ... 254 Bibliography ... 257 Index ... 284

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Book SynopsisBeyond 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 institutions, in the overseas expansion and consequent development of European empires. While unveiling the practices and mechanisms of cooperation between individuals, this volume show cases the role played by individuals for the creation, development and maintenance of self-organized networks in the Early Modern period. Applying new conceptual and theoretical inputs, this book values the contributions of different ‘worlds’, bringing to the fore the interactions of Europeans and non-Europeans, Christians and non-Christians, people living within-, on- or just outside the border of empire.Trade Review"This is an impressive collection of essays that in the strength and coherence of its individual contributions succeeds in making a persuasive case. [...] this is a collection to be recommended for a wide audience. Unlike many volumes of this kind, it succeeds in advancing a clear argument and the editors are to be thanked for bringing together such an illuminating set of essays." - Adam Clulow, in: The International Journal of Maritime History, 29:4 (2017), pp. 927-929 "Beyond Empires succeeds in constructing a history of unofficial global networks and informal commercial activities in the early modern period. Cátia A.P. Antunes and Amelia Polónia argue that ‘this informal empire that was brought to fruition by the individual choices of free agents and their networks as a reaction to state-imposed monopolies was … a borderless, selforganized, often cross-cultural, multi-ethnic, pluri-national and stateless world that can only be characterized as global’ (10). This collective volume offers fresh evidence on private entrepreneurs, merchant families, and mercantile" - Brian Sanberg, in: Itinerario, 41:3 (2017), pp. 636-638 [DOI:10.1017/S016511531700081X] "[This] volume contains numerous valuable and fascinating insights into the transnational and trans-imperial operations of informal commercial networks. However, while this empirical richness alone makes the volume a worthwhile read, by far its greatest achievement is the formulation of an analytical framework for the analysis of transnational networks." - Felicia Gottmann, in: Journal of World History, 29:4 (2018), pp. 574-584 [DOI: 10.1353/jwh.2018.0058]Table of ContentsGeneral Editor’s Foreword ... vii List of Figures and Tables ... x List of Contributors ... xii Introduction ... 1 Cátia Antunes and Amélia Polónia 1 The Evolution of Norms in Trade and Financial Networks in the First Global Age: The Case of the Simon Ruiz’s Network 12 Ana Sofia Ribeiro 2 Trans-Imperial and Cross-Cultural Networks for the Slave Trade, 1580s–1800s ... 41 Filipa Ribeiro da Silva 3 Dutch and English Approaches to Cross-Cultural Trade in Mughal India and the Problem of Trust, 1600–1630 ... 69 Guido van Meersbergen 4 ‘The Japanese Connection’: Self-Organized Smuggling Networks in Nagasaki circa 1666–1742 ... 88 Jurre Knoest 5 The Pirate Round: Globalized Sea Robbery and Self-Organizing Trans-Maritime Networks around 1700 ... 138 Michael Kempe 6 Merchant Cooperation in Society and State: A Case Study in the Hispanic Monarchy ... 160 Ana Crespo Solana 7 In the Shadow of the Companies: Empires of Trade in the Orient and Informal Entrepreneurship ... 188 Chris Nierstrasz 8 Smuggling for Survival: Self-Organized, Cross-Imperial Colony Building in Essequibo and Demerara, 1746–1796 ... 212 Bram Hoonhout 9 Trading with Asia without a Colonial Empire in Asia: Swedish Merchant Networks and Chartered Company Trade, 1760–1790 ... 236 Leos Müller 10 Was Warfare Necessary for the Functioning of Eighteenth-Century Colonial Systems? Some Reflections on the Necessity of Cross-Imperial and Foreign Trade in the French Case ... 253 Silvia Marzagalli Epilogue ... 278 Cátia Antunes and Amélia Polónia Bibliography ... 281 Index ... 300

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Book SynopsisIn Representing Empire Ying Xiong examines Japanese-language colonial literature written by Japanese expatriate writers in Taiwan and Manchuria. Drawing on a wide range of Japanese and Chinese sources, Representing Empire reveals not only a nuanced picture of Japanese literary terrain but also the interplay between imperialism, nationalism, and Pan-Asianism in the colonies. While the existing literature on Japanese nationalism has largely remained within the confines of national history, by using colonial literature as an example, Ying Xiong demonstrates that transnational forces shaped Japanese nationalism in the twentieth century. With its multidisciplinary and comparative approach, Representing Empire adds to a growing body of literature that challenges traditional interpretations of Japanese nationalism and national literary canon.Trade Review"Ying examines (sometimes in very great detail!) the complex and often fraught relationships these two expatriate native sons develop vis-à-vis empire. [...] the author’s choice to expand the traditional focus of literary histories to include Japanese writers living in colonies brings a welcome sense of empathy and nuance from writers living among the colonized, who were themselves struggling with what might be seen as a “negative national” identity. Ying’s volume opens up broad perspectives on the complex ambivalences that can emerge in different corners of the same empire, and invites us to give further consideration to the dynamics and effects of political, and literary, imperialism in fresh new ways." J. Scott Miller, Brigham Young University, Recherche Littéraire / Literary Research 33 (Summer 2017) "This volume is a significant contribution to the growing body of scholarship on East Asian literatures that examines [Japanese-language colonial literature written by Japanese expatriate writers in Taiwan and Manchuria] in broader transnational and comparative focus... with great skill, [Xiong] offer[s] a timely contribution to the field of comparative East Asian literatures." Karen Thornber, Harvard University, The Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 42.2 (Summer 2016) “Representing Empire is an outstanding accomplishment, at once making clearer and complicating our understandings of the literary worlds of Manchuria and Taiwan, and the greater imperial empire within which all were transformed. … add[s] substantially to the ways in which Japan’s empire and twentieth century East Asian history more generally might be interpreted.” Norman Smith, University of Guelph, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center Publication (February, 2015) "Representing Empire contributes in new ways to our understanding of colonial literature and identity formation in East Asia. Rather than the nation-state paradigm, the volume uses the interactions and transcultural forces within the East Asian domain to explore the larger forces of imperialism and nationalism and the ways that writers constructed their identities and engaged in their activities." Rosemary Haddon, Massey University, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, Vol 17.1 (June 2015) "Ying Xiong's monograph contributes immensely to our understanding of knowledge production across the Japanese empire. Drawing on a wealth of highly original Japanese and Chinese primary sources—such as colonial literary journals that published literary criticism of local works or Japanese translations of Chinese literature—her study will be of great use to scholars in Chinese as well as Japanese literary or social studies... Ying Xiong not only transcends conventional disciplinary boundaries, but more importantly helps overcome linguistic limitations that many of us with a working knowledge in one Asian language might face when embarking on comparative Sino-Japanese research... Xiong's grasp of the materials treated in this fascinating monograph is impressive." Frederik H. Green, San Fransisco State University, China Review International, Vol. 21.1 (2014)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction Part I Exoticising the Other, Reinenting the Self Chapter One: National Literature and Beyond Chapter Two: Local Discovered Chapter Three: National Lineage Reinvented Part II: Pan-Asianism Unrealised Chapter Four: Between Imperialism and Pan-Asianism Imperialial Chapter Five: Literature in the Name of National Harmony Chapter Six: Translating Texts, Transforming Identities Part III: Re-mapping the Empire: Japan, Taiwan, and Manchukuo Chapter Seven: Imperial Knowledge and Colonial Power Chapter Eight: Romanticising the Empire Chapter Nine: Local Literature in Ambivalence Conclusion: Japanese Nationalism and its Discontents Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Republic of Korea was colonialized in the early 20th century, achieved its independence, and rose from the ashes of the Korean War to become an Asian power. Korea’s ascent coincides neatly with the advent of globalization and growing importance of international law in managing the increasing interactions between states and other non-state entities such as multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations, and international organizations like the United Nations. The Making of International Law in Korea addresses the developments of international law in Korea from human rights concerns to law of the sea issues; from maritime delimitation and access to ocean resources to other non-security matters. Offered as a textbook for academics and students, the authors demonstrate the increasingly important role of international law in shaping international relations in Northeast Asia and Korea.Trade Review"The book will be of great use and interest to students, researchers, and practitioners in East Asian diplomacy, public international law, international relations, and decision-makers in need of a better understanding of the settlement of international disputes in East Asia, in particular among Korea, Japan, and China, and indeed the wider world." -Youngmin Seo, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, KoreaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Chapter I: Korea’s Encounter with the Modern International Legal System I. Introduction 1.1. International Order of East Asia in the Era of International Law: Acceptance and the Status of Korea in International Law 1.2 Status of International Law in the Domestic Legal System of Korea 1.3 Treaty Making in Korea II. Conceptions of International Law 2.1 Positivism in International Law III. Historical Context of International Relations in Northeast Asia 3.1 Brief Historical Context of International Relations in Northeast Asia IV. Introduction of Western International Law 4.1 Introduction of Western International Law into East Asia Judicial Decisions A. Treaties and International Agreements (1) Direct Application of Treaties Constitutional Court [97 Heon-ba 65] Decision issued November 26, 1998. (2) Self-Executing Treaties Supreme Court [96 Da 55877] Judgment issued March 26, 1999. (3) Effect of Treaties as Domestic Law a. Constitutional Court [99 Heon-ma 139, 143, 156, 160 Consolidated] Decision issued March 21, 2001. b. Constitutional Court [2002 Heon-ma 611] Decision issued April 24, 2003. c. Constitutional Court [2000 Heon-ba 20] Decision issued September 27, 2001. (4) Precedence in the Application of Treaties as Lex Specialis Supreme Court [82 Da-ka 1372] Judgment issued July 22, 1986. (5) Harmonious Interpretation of Domestic and International Law Constitutional Court [2004 Heon-ba 47] Decision issued April 24, 2008. (6) Whether Agreed Minutes is a Treaty Constitutional Court [99 Heon-ma 139, 142, 156, 160 Consolidated] Decision issued March 21, 2001. (7) Legal Nature of the Joint Statement of ROK-US Ministers of Foreign Affairs Constitutional Court [2006 Heon-ra 4] Decision issued March 27, 2008. B. International Customary Law (1) Application of International Customary Law Supreme Court [97 Da 39216] Judgment issued December 17, 1998. Chapter II: The Legacy and Impact of Japanese Colonialism I. Introduction II. Annexation by Japan 2.1 The Legality of the 1910 Annexation of Korea by Japan III. San Francisco Peace Treaty 3.1 The 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty and Its Relevance to the Sovereignty over Dokdo 3.2 The San Francisco Peace Treaty with Japan of 1951 and Territorial Disputes in East Asia IV. Colonial Claims against Japan A. 1965 Korea-Japan Claims Settlement Agreement 4.1 The 1965 “Korea-Japan Claims Settlement Agreement” and Individuals’ Claims Rights B. Comfort Women and Forced Labor 4.2 Historical Issues between Korea and Japan and Judicial Activism: Focus on the Recent Decisions of the Korean Constitutional Court concerning Comfort Women and the Supreme Court Decision on Japanese Forced Labor 4.3 Historical Issues between Korea and Japan and Judicial Activism: Focus on the Recent Supreme Court Decision on Forced Labor C. Dokdo 4.4 The San Francisco Peace Treaty, International Law on Territorial Disputes, and Historical Criticism Judicial Decisions A. Forced Labor Cases (1) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (2009 Da 22549 Verdict, issued May 24, 2012 [Supreme Ct.]). (2) New Nippon Steel Corporation (2009 Da 68620 Verdict, issued May 24, 2012 [Supreme Ct.]). B. Comfort Women Case (1) Constitutionality of Nonfeasance under Article 3 of the Agreement between the Republic of Korea and Japan Concerning the Settlement of Problems in Regard to Property and Claims and Economic Cooperation (2006 Heonma 788 Decision, issued August 30, 2011 [Const. Ct.]. Chapter III: International Legal Issues Arising from a Divided Nation I. Introduction II. Maritime Border 2.1 The Maritime Boundaries of North Korea in the Yellow Sea III. Maritime Conflicts 3.1 Lethal Maritime Conflicts between North and South Korea: Any Role for International Law? 3.2 The Cheonan Incident: A Perspective from International Law and Politics IV. Law of the Sea 4.1 North Korea and the Law of the Sea V. Safety of Navigation 5.1 Korea and the Safety of Navigation: Uncertainty Derived from Undefined Fences Judicial Decisions (1) Is the UN membership of ROK and DPRK a Mutual, Tacit Consent? Constitutional Court [95 Heon-ga 2] Decision issued October 4, 1996. (2) Legal Nature of the Inter-Korean Basic Agreement Constitutional Court [89 Heon-ma 240] Decision issued January 16, 1997. (3) Territorial Clause of the Constitution and the Status of North Korea Supreme Court [90 Do 1451] Judgment issued September 25, 1990 (4) Status of North Korea’s Military Government Military Supreme Court [4281 Heong-sang 10] Judgment issued March 24, 1948. Chapter IV: The Development of the Law of the Sea in Korea I. Introduction II. Fisheries 2.1 Korean Response to Changes of the International Legal Framework for Fisheries in the Northeast Asian Seas 2.2 Fisheries in the East China Sea and the Issue of Law Enforcement in the EEZ: Korean Perspective 2.3 The Legal Assessment of the Illegal Fishing Activities of Chinese Fishing Vessels: A Focus on Detention of Foreign Vessels III. Maritime Security and Safety 3.1 Korea’s Maritime Challenges and Priorities 3.2 The Legal Framework of Maritime Security in East Asia: A Comparative View IV. Maritime Cooperation 4.1 Protection of the Sea Lanes in the Jeju Waters and Maritime Cooperation in Northeast Asia V. Maritime Boundaries 5.1 Intertemporal Law, Recent Judgments, and Territorial Disputes in Asia 5.2 Territorial Disputes and Delimitation Issues between Korea and Its Neighbors 5.3 Maritime Delimitation and Joint Resource Development in the East China Sea VI. Piracy 6.1 Korea’s Maritime Challenges and Priorities – Piracy and Armed Robbery Against Ships 6.2 Republic of Korea v. Araye Judicial Decisions (1) Judgment on the New Fisheries Agreement between Korea and Japan Constitutional Court [99 Heon-ma 139, 142, 156, 160 Consolidated] Decision issued Mar. 21, 2001. (2) Case concerning Piracy Republic of Korea v. Araye (2011 Do 12927 Verdict, issued December 22, 2011 [Supreme Ct.]). Chapter V: Other International Legal Issues Affecting Korea I. Migration 1.1 Korean-Chinese, Migrant Workers, Marriage Immigrant Women, and the Refugee Act II. Border between North Korea and China 2.1 Implications of the Border Regime between North Korea and China III. Gando 3.1 Analysis of Korea’s Claim of Sovereignty over Gando (Jiandao) Area in China under International Law Index

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Book SynopsisIn Bali in the Early Nineteenth Century, Helen Creese examines the nature of the earliest sustained cross-cultural encounter between the Balinese and the Dutch through the eyewitness accounts of Pierre Dubois, the first colonial official to live in Bali. From 1828 to 1831, Dubois served as Civil Administrator to the Badung court in southern Bali. He later recorded his Balinese experiences for the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences in a series of personal letters to an anonymous correspondent. This first ethnography of Bali provides rich, perceptive descriptions of early nineteenth-century Balinese politics, society, religion and culture. The book includes a complete edition and translation of Dubois’ Légère Idée de Balie en 1830/Sketch of Bali in 1830.Trade Review"The book is a major achievement in the study of Balinese history and culture. The complex of letters, sometimes in a fragmentary and unfinished state, offers a vast panorama of Bali in the early nineteenth century, seen by a prejudiced but sharp-eyed official who had seen much of this world. [...] The highly useful and down-to-earth comments by Helen Creese, together with her meticulous efforts to trace the life and times of Pierre Dubois, makes the book an inexhaustible source of information." – Hans Hägerdal, Linnaeus University, in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 175 (2019), p. 81–135.Table of ContentsPreface Editorial principles and conventions List of Illustrations Part 1: Historical and Cultural Context Ch. 1: The Textual Traces of a Colonial Life: Pierre Dubois (ca. 1776-1838) Ch. 2: Overtures: The Dutch in Bali, 1808-1826 Ch. 3: The Recruitment Post at Kuta Ch. 4: The Transcendent Art of Balinese Politics Ch. 5: The Return to Kuta, 1829-1831 Ch. 6: The Kuta Post: An Assessment Ch. 7: An Accidental Ethnographer Ch. 8: In Pursuit of Truth: Dubois in the Field Ch. 9: A Textual Cabinet of Curiosities: Commentaries on History, Society, Religion and Ritual Ch. 10: The Dubois Manuscripts: Transmission and Intertextuality Ch. 11: A Textual Postscript: The Journey of the Manuscripts Part 2: Pierre Dubois: Légère Idée de Balie en 1830 List of Letters Letters – French Transcription Part 3: Pierre Dubois: Sketch of Bali in 1830 List of Letters Letters – English Translation Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn 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 discusses royal authority from a transatlantic perspective that encompasses both sides of the Iberian Atlantic. Considering the similarities and tensions that coexisted in the Iberian Atlantic, Ballone offers a thorough reassessment of current historiography on the Tumult proving that, despite the conflicts and arguments underlying the disturbances, there was never any intention to do away with the king’s authority in New Spain.Trade Review"What stood at the centre of this processes, indeed what made it possible for local power struggles to be resolved, was a shared understanding of the principles of law, power, and authority which bound the early modern Spanish world together and which, as Ballone demonstrates, were fundamentally the same on both sides of the Atlantic." - Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, in: The International Journal of Maritime History 31(2) (June 2019) [https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ijh] “Superando la narrativa de las historias nacionales, Ballone apuesta por un enfoque “atlántico” para estudiar el tumulto de 1624. Así, la autora concibe este conflicto no como algo restringido a la política interna del virreinato de la Nueva España, sino como un fenómeno cuyas causas y repercusiones deben ser ubicadas en ambos lados del Océano Atlántico, un espacio que es entendido más en términos de continuidad que de ruptura o separación.” - Francisco Quijano, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México – UNAM (Mexico), in: Los Reinos de las Indias en el Nuevo Mundo (blog), 22 January 2019 [https://losreinosdelasindias.hypotheses.org/] “La autora sugiere de un modo convincente que la solución del conflicto, - y los radicales cambios de postura de la corona - se explican tanto por la evolución de las relaciones de poder en Madrid, y por los imperativos de la política extranjera de España, como por el análisis que ella hace de la situación local. (...) Reexaminando la crisis mexicana de 1624, Ballone logra innovar. Poniendo a debate la noción de autoridad monárquica mediante el análisis de su ejercicio concreto, apropiándose de los objetos y de las herramientas de la historia de las redes y de los de la historia atlántica, la autora logra abrir nuevas perspectivas.” - Pierre Ragon, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre (France), in: Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos (blog), 17 December 2018 [https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/74030]. "In the finest tradition of Atlantic history, Angela Ballone’s monograph about the 1624 tumult of Mexico City brings us a broader understanding of how royal authority was made in New Spain and Spanish America". Gibran Bautista y Lugo, in Fifteenth–Seventeenth Centuries.Table of ContentsGeneral Editor’s Foreword Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Transcription System The Tumult in Brief Introduction  The Scale of the Mexican Disturbances  Royal Authority as a Tool of Integration in the Iberian Atlantic  Historiographical Approaches to the Tumult of 1624 Rethinking the Tumult in Perspective 1 Theatre of the Disturbances  Windows onto the Iberian Atlantic World  Metropolis of the New World  The Composite Nature of Mexican Urban Population  The Broad Urban Scenario  Royal Authority in Flesh and Blood 2 Pre-Dating the Tumult  The Mexican Audiencia at the Time of Guadalcazar  Guadalcazar: el Buen Rey or a Despotic Viceroy?  Historiography on Guadalcazar’s Mandates  From Mexico to Lima  The Logistics of Communication in the Iberian Atlantic 3 A Viceroy in an Age of Decline  Royal Appointment by Philip III  Gelves’s First Entry in Mexico City  First Impressions in the New World  Positive Feedback to the Council  Reforming Local Custom and Patronising Municipal Institutions  Supervising the Administration of Justice  The First Arrest of Oidor Vergara Gaviria  Old World Casuistry and New Instructions from Spain 4 The Two Heads of the Viceroyalty  The Administration of the Faith: A Sensitive Topic  Idyll between Archbishop and Viceroy  Deterioration of the Varaez Case  Two Majesties in Conflict  Juntas in Spanish America  Authority from Theory to Practice  The Cathedral of Mexico and the Scale of Conflicts  New Year and the Eve of the Tumult  The Beginning of the End  Reactions to the Exile 5 Storming the Viceregal Palace  Royal Authority Performed in the Mexican Zócalo  The King Arrested and the Pope Exiled  Sacred Objects in the Battlefield  A Heretic Viceroy in Mexico City?  ‘Long Live to the King and Death to Heretics!’  The Insurgents’ Requests  From Fire to Firearms  The Regency  The Viceroy is Missing  The Tumult is Over  Who were These Insurgents Anyway? Illustrations The Long Road to Resolution 6 The Day After  Comuneros of New Spain?  The Pillage of the Palace  ‘No God, nor King, nor Judges!’  The Mexican Delegation  The Viceroy Besieged  Justice and Power Performed by the Audiencia  Sparkling the Transatlantic Debate  A New Viceroy in an Age of Crisis  Restoration of Viceregal Authority  Two Viceroys, Two Schools of Politics  The Archbishop of Mexico in Europe 7 Tools of Control from the Metropolitan Court  Preparations for the General Inspection  The Beginning of the Inspection  Gelves’s Judicial Examination  Viceroys’ Authority above Everything Else  The Second Arrest of Oidor Vergara Gaviria  Mexico City under Pressure Again  The End of Gelves’s Juicio de Residencia (in Mexico)  Unsettling Metropolitan Considerations about the Inspection 8 From the Inspection to the General Pardon  Another Extraordinary Junta at the Court of Philip IV  The Mexican Pardon in Perspective  The New Archbishop of Mexico  Restoration of Religious Authority  The Edict of the Pardon  The New Inspection  Different Interpretations of the Pardon  More Tensions in Mexico City  The Resilience of the Gelvista Party 9 Metropolitan Déjà Vu  Two Heads in Opposition, Again  ‘There is Only One Viceroy in New Spain!’  Assessing the Junta del Tumulto de México  The Members of the Junta  The Hidden ‘Life’ of the Junta del Tumulto  An Ongoing Discussion outside the Junta  Rethinking Metropolitan Perceptions of Mexican Politics  The Viceroys’ Sentences Conclusions Appendix: A Fructibus Eorum Cognoscentis Eos (México, 1629) Glossary Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a historical overview of colonial Mexico City and the important role it played in the creation of the early modern Hispanic world. Organized into five sections, an interdisciplinary and international team of twenty scholars scrutinize the nature and character of Mexico City through the study of its history and society, religious practices, institutions, arts, and scientific, cartographic, and environmental endeavors. The Companion ultimately shows how viceregal Mexico City had a deep sense of history, drawing from all that the ancient Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa offered but where history, culture, and identity twisted and turned in extraordinary fashion to forge a new society. Contributors are: Matthew Restall, Luis Fernando Granados, Joan C. Bristol, Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Frances L. Ramos, Antonio Rubial García, Alejandro Cañeque, Cristina Cruz González, Iván Escamilla González, María del Pilar Martínez López-Cano, Enrique González González, Paula S. De Vos, Barbara E. Mundy, John F. López, Miruna Achim, Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Martha Lilia Tenorio, Jesús A. Ramos-Kitrell, Amy C. Hamman, and Stacie G. Widdifield. See inside the book.

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Book SynopsisIn ‘Another Jerusalem’: Political Legitimacy and Courtly Government in the Kingdom of New Spain (1535-1568) José-Juan López-Portillo offers a new approach to understanding why the most densely populated and culturally sophisticated regions of Mesoamerica accepted the authority of Spanish viceroys. By focusing on the routines and practices of quotidian political life in New Spain, and the ideological affinities that bound indigenous and non-indigenous political communities to the viceregal regime, López Portillo discloses the formation of new loyalties, interests and identities particular to New Spain. Rather than the traditional view of European colonial domination over a demoralized indigenous population, New Spain now appears as Mexico City’s sub-empire: an aggregate of the Habsburg ‘composite monarchy’. "Embellished with wonderful illustrations, this work draws upon extensive secondary and primary sources. Scholars studying Spain's America will find it a thoughtful addition to historical literature on 16th-century New Spain." - M. A. Burkholder, University of Missouri - St. Louis, in: CHOICE, July 2018 Vol. 55 No. 11Trade Review"Embellished with wonderful illustrations, this work draws upon extensive secondary and primary sources. Scholars studying Spain's America will find it a thoughtful addition to historical literature on 16th-century New Spain." - M.A. Burkholder, University of Missouri - St. Louis, in: CHOICE, July 2018 Vol. 55 No. 11

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Book SynopsisIn Islam and Gender in Colonial Northeast Africa, Silvia Bruzzi provides an account of Islamic movements and gender dynamics in the context of colonial rule in Northeast Africa. The thread that runs through the book is the life and times of Sittī ‘Alawiyya al-Mīrġanī (1892-1940), a representative of a well-established transnational Sufi order in the Red Sea region. Silvia Bruzzi gives us not only a social history of the colonial encounter in the Eritrean colony, but also a wider historical account of supra-regional dynamics across the Red Sea, the Ethiopian hinterland, and the Mediterranean region, using a wide range of fragmentary historical materials to make an important contribution towards filling the gap that currently exists in women's and gender history in Muslim societies.Trade Review[...] “Constant experimentation of approaches and the use of a wide variety of sources are the distinctive traits of this book [...]. Silvia Bruzzi’s book is an original and stimulating contribution that gives Eritrea the history of one of its foremost female protagonists”. Massimo Zaccaria, University of Pavia, in Aethiopica 23 (2020) pp. 292-295 [...] 'Cet ouvrage passionnant et érudit participe du renouvellement de l’approche biographique dans le champ des études africaines' Ophélie Rillon, CNRS, in Cahiers d’études africains 242 (2021) pp. 1-3Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations A Note on Transliteration and Dates Transliteration List Introduction  Sufism, Colonialism and Gender Dynamics  Sufism and the Female Body 1 Islamic Renewal Movements, Colonial Occupation, and the Ḫatmiyya in the Red Sea Region  Islam and the Idrīsī Tradition in Northeast Africa  The Establishment of the Ḫatmiyya in the Red Sea Region 2 Sufis at the Crossroads: Regional Conflicts and Colonial Penetration  The Ḫatmiyya up against the Sudanese Mahdī  A Marriage Alliance between the Mīrġanī and the Beni ʿAmer People  Sīdī Hāšim: Spy or walī ? 3 Islam, Gender and Leadership  Female Heirs by Blood Alone: A Power Vacuum?  Women and Heresy in Sufi Centres  Embodying Religious Orthodoxy 4 Fragmented, (In)Visible and (Un)Told Stories  Looking for Muslim Women in Northeast African History  Regional Women’s Centres of Empowerment and Religious Learning  Baraka, Itinerant Preaching and the Mobility of Pious Women 5 Sufi Women’s “Fantasy”, Performances and Fashion  Imagination and Desire in Women’s Bodies  Women’s Fantasia in Sufi Regional Centres  Visiting a Fashionable, Cosmopolitan Woman 6 Growing Visibility in the Political Arena  Women’s Bodies, Photography, and Colonialism  Growing Popularity Broadcast through Visual Media  Visibility, Visuality and Power in Portraits of the Šarīfa 7 Marvels, Charisma and Modernity  Performed and Contested Karāmāt  Modern Enchantment: Colonial Technologies and Infrastructures  Mediating Conflicts 8 Military Bodies: Askaris, Officials and “the Female Warrior”  Religious Intermediaries and Regional Networks  Enlisting Askaris and Colonial Propaganda  The Defeat of Italy 9 A Female Icon of Muslim “Emancipation” for the Conquest of Ethiopia (1936–1941)  Building Mosques: Muslim Policies from Libya to Ethiopia  A Female Icon of Muslim “Emancipation”  The Mosques Built in Honour of Sittī ʿAlawiyya  Muslim Attitudes towards the Italian Occupation: From Collaboration to Agency 10 Conclusion: Sufi Memories  Women’s Embodied Archives and Spirit Possession  Embodying Sittī ʿAlawiyya’s Visit to Harar  Sufi Visions and Historical Imagination Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn 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 a unique historical study of the Chinese community of Batavia (Jakarta) written by an anonymous Chinese author at the end of the 18th century, the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji. This historical document and a selection of other Chinese contemporary sources throw new light on a tragic event in the history of Southeast Asia’s overseas Chinese: the massacre of Batavia’s Chinese community in 1740.Trade Review"The volume [...] is to be especially commended for making source material available in Englihs in a fine edition". Philip Reissner, in The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol.1 (2), 2019.Table of ContentsContents General Series Editor’s Foreword Preface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Part 1: Introductory Material 1 A Historical Sketch of Batavia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 2 A Chinese Urban Society in the Tropics 3 Chinese Sources for the History of the Chinese Community in Batavia 4 Critical Comments on Kai Ba Lidai Shiji and Its Genesis 5 A Diachronic Overview of the Contents the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji 6 Editorial Notes on the Sources Kai Ba Lidai Shiji Part 2: The Chinese Annals of Batavia A Chinese Chronicle of the Historical Events at Yaolaoba (Gelapa) Part 3: Accompanying Texts 1 Brief Account of Galaba (噶喇吧紀略), by Cheng Sunwo (程遜我) 2 Selections from the Biography of Cai Xin (蔡新傳) and from Historical Materials in the First Historical Archive of China Concerning the Debates about Banning the Overseas Trade to the Nanyang during the Qianlong Period 3 Selections from The Chinaman Abroad: An Account of the Malayan Archipelago, Particularly of Java, by Ong-Tae-Hae (王大海, Wang Dahai), translated by W.H. Medhurst 4 Jialaba (甲喇吧, Galaba), by Gu Sen (顧森) Appendices Appendix 1: The Appointment of Captain Tsoa Wanjock Appendix 2: Name Lists Appendix 3: Glossary of Malay and Dutch Terms in Kaiba Lidai shiji Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn 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 its sovereignty. 'Battle against piracy' offered a good reason for a state to claim its authority as the sole protector of people, and to establish peace, order, and sovereignty. In fact, as the contributors explain, the story was not that simple, because states sometimes attempted to make economic and political use of piracy, while private interests were strongly involved in antipiracy politics. State formation processes were not clearly separated from non-state elements. Contributors are: Kudo Akihito, Satsuma Shinsuke, Suzuki Hideaki, Lakshmi Sabramanian, Ota Atsushi, James Francis Warren, Fujita Tatsuo, Murakami Ei, and Toyooka Yasufumi.Table of ContentsContents General Series Editor’s Preface  George Bryan Souza Acknowledgments  Ota Atsushi Notes on Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction  Ota Atsushi Part 1: From Co-existence to Prohibition: Maritime Violence in Europe 1 Privateers in the Early-Modern Mediterranean: Violence, Diplomacy and Commerce in the Maghrib, c. 1600-1830  Kudo Akihito and Ota Atsushi 2 Plunder and Free Trade: British Privateering and Its Abolition in 1856 in Global Perspective  Satsuma Shinsuke Part 2: Contingent Developments in Antipiracy Politics in the Asian Seas 3 The Making of the ‘Joasmee’ Pirates: A Relativist Reconsideration of the Qawāsimi Piracy in the Persian Gulf  Hideaki Suzuki 4 Petitions and Predation: The Politics of Representation in Northwest India at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century  Lakshmi Subramanian 5 Trade, Piracy, and Sovereignty: Changing Perceptions of Piracy and Dutch Colonial State-Building in Malay Waters, ca. 1780–1830  Ota Atsushi 6 In the Name of Sovereignty: Spain’s Tackling of ‘Moro’ Piracy in the Sulu Zone, 1768–1898  James Francis Warren Part 3: Piracy and State in East Asia 7 Piracy Prohibition Edicts and the Establishment of Maritime Control System in Japan, c. 1585–1640  Fujita Tatsuo (translated by Ota Atsushi) 8 The Suppression of Pirates in the China Seas by the Naval Forces of China, Macao, and Britain (1780–1860)  Toyooka Yasufumi and Murakami Ei Conclusion  Ota Atsushi Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCommercial Transitions and Abolition in West Africa 1630–1860 offers a fresh perspective on why, in the nineteenth century, the most important West African states and merchants who traded with Atlantic markets became exporters of commodities, instead of exporters of slaves. This study takes a long-term comparative approach and makes of use of new quantitative data. It argues that the timing and nature of the change from slave exports to so-called ‘legitimate commerce’ in the Gold Coast, the Bight of Biafra and the Bight of Benin, can be predicted by patterns of trade established in previous centuries by a range of African and European actors responding to the changing political and economic environments of the Atlantic world.Table of Contents List of Figures, Maps and Tables  List of Appendices  Introduction: Historiography of the Commercial Transition  1 From Slaves to ‘legitimate commerce’: Different Places, Different Times  2 West African Trade with the Atlantic World  3 Accounting for Regional Differences  4 Organisation Part 1 Trends in the (Non-Slave) Trade with West Africa Over the Eighteenth Century  1 Regional Patterns of (Non-Slave) Trade in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century  1 The Commodity Trade in the Early Eighteenth Century  2 Trade in Africa in the Eighteenth Century  2 Commercial Agriculture and Slave Ship Provisioning 1680–1800  1 Did the Transatlantic Slave Trade Boost West African Commercial Agriculture?  2 Main Results  3 Changing Relative Prices and Trade Risks  4 Revised Estimates of West African Food Exports, 1681–1807  5 Why did British Provisioning Strategies Differ and What were the Impacts on Different Regions?  3 The Transatlantic Slave and Commodity Trades in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century  1 Measuring the Volume and Value of the Commodity Trade  2 Real Value and Structure of West Africa’s Commodity Trade  3 Regional Trade  4 Market Exchange and the Slave Trade Part 2 The Long-Term Roots of the Commercial Transitions: Case Studies  4 The Gold Coast: Gold, Wealth and Power Amongst the Akans  1 Long-term Trade Contacts  2 A New Interpretation of the Impact of Abolition  3 Economic and Political Considerations in 1808  4 Gold and the Asante State  5 Household Labour Decisions  5 The Bight of Biafra: From Export Slavery to Slave Production  1 External Trade  2 The Value of the Commodity Trade and ‘comey’  3 Britain and Palm Oil Trading  4 Institutional Development in Biafra  5 The Demand for Labour and the Internal Slave Trade  6 Household Production of Palm Oil  6 The Bight of Benin: Dahomey and the Dominance of Export Slavery  1 Long-term Trends in Dahomey’s Trade  2 Comparative Value of the Slave and Commodity Trades  3 Trading Partners  4 Dahomean Militarism  5 Militarism and Labour  Conclusion  1 Long-Term Patterns of Trade  2 Diverging Trajectories  3 The Real Impact of Britain’s Abolition Campaign  4 Implications and Future Research  Bibliography   Published Contemporary Sources   Secondary Sources   Online Sources  Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves, Lúcio de Sousa offers a study on the system of traffic of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean slaves from Japan, using the Portuguese mercantile networks; reconstructs the Japanese communities in the Habsburg Empire; and analyses the impact of the Japanese slave trade on the Iberian legislation produced in the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries.Trade ReviewWinner of the Portuguese Academy of History Award / Gulbenkian Foundation Award in History 2019 “With his assiduous tracking and identification of the humans trafficked across the Eastern hemisphere, the author has produced a new and slightly provocative standard that is unlikely to be easily duplicated, meanwhile also unwittingly calling attention to the need for even deeper research on some of the circuits of the uglier side of the slave trade, as seen with the Indian Ocean littoral. All in all, this is a commendable work and a great resource for students of medieval Japanese history and Portuguese “expansion.”” – Geoffrey C. Gunn, Nagasaki University, in: Monumenta Nipponica 74/2 (2019) "With no significant primary sources specifically on the Portuguese slave trade, the author has clearly made a prodigious effort to comb through documents at archives in Macau, India, Portugal, Italy, and Spain for references to Asian slaves and to compile an important account of a significant part of Portugal’s trade with Japan. The result is a comprehensive study in English on a topic that has received little attention but will be of interest to a wide range of scholars." – Jan Leuchtenberger, University of Puget Sound, in: The Journal of Japanese Studies 47/1 (2021)Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction   Terminology   The Book’s Structure 1 The Chinese Stage   The Chinese Stage   Macao, Kurofune, and the Slave Trade in Japan: The Earliest Evidence   Examples from the Chinese Diaspora 2 The Japanese Stage   The Japanese Stage   The Iberian Union: The Opening of Private Trade between Macao and Manila and Financial Restructuring in Macao   Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Liberation of Macao Ship Slaves 3 The Korean Stage   The Macao Ship and Korean Slaves   European Missionaries and Traders and the Invasion of Korea by Hideyoshi 4 Reorganization of the Portuguese Slave Trade   The End of Korean and Japanese Slavery in the “Nau De Macau” and Its Replacement with Chinese Slavery in the Philippines (1600–14)   The Last Chapter of the Portuguese Presence in Japan 5 The Structure of Portuguese Slavery in Japan   Capture   Other Origins of Japanese Slaves Purchased by the Portuguese   Sale   Transportation   The Society of Jesus and the Ballot System   Price and Number of Slaves 6 Case Studies: Crossing Diasporas   The Chinese Slave Victoria Diaz and the Jewish Conversos   The Japanese slave Gaspar Fernandes and the Jewish Conversos   The 1640 Delegation and the “Korean” Miguel Carvalho   From Slave of the Society of Jesus to Franciscan Priest: The Case of Jerónimo Iyo (伊予)/Geronimo de la Cruz 7 The Iberian World and the Japanese Diaspora   Macao   The Philippines   Goa   Japanese Mercenaries Serving the Habsburgs in Asia   Mexico   Peru   Argentina   Portugal   Spain 8 Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation   From the Reconquista to   Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation: 1550–80   Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation: 1580–1600 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn 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 particularly the mobilization of the mission militia and the movement of soldiers on campaign had demographic consequences for the populations of the missions such as the spread of contagion. This study documents regional conflict in the Rio de la Plata, the militarization of the Jesuit missions, and the demographic consequences of conflict for the mission populations.Table of ContentsGeneral Series Editor’s Preface  George Bryan Souza Acknowledgements List of Figures, Illustrations, Tables and Maps 1Introduction 2Profile of a Demographic Crisis: 1733–1740 3Regional Conflict and the Militarization of the Jesuit Missions 4Demographic Patterns on the Missions 5Conclusions Appendix 1: The Population and Vital Rates of the Guaraní Missions discussed in Chapter 4 Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Elasticity in Domesticity: White women in Rhodesian Zimbabwe, 1890-1979 Ushehwedu Kufakurinani examines the colonial experiences of white women in what was later called Rhodesia. He demonstrates the extent to which the state and society appropriated white women’s labour power and the workings of the domestic ideology in shaping white women’s experiences. The author also discusses how and to what extent white women appropriated and deployed the domestic ideology. Institutional as well as personal archives were consulted which include official correspondence, diaries, personal letters, newsletters, magazines, commissions of inquiry, among other sources.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Map of Rhodesia Introduction: White Women and the Unfolding Rhodesian Society 1 Domesticity, Constructions of Whiteness, and White Femininity in Southern Rhodesia 2 White Women and the Domestic Space: Housewifery in the Rhodesian Context 3 Emerging Out of the Sheaths of Domesticity? White Women in Formal Wage Employment, c. 1914–1980 4 White Women and Wage Employment 5 Mothering the Empire: Overview of White Women’s Organisations 6 White Women’s Organisations and Settler Society, 1920s–1970s 7 Encounter with Africans, 1920s–1980 8 White Women and the Homecraft Movement Conclusion Appendix A Appendix B Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSpecter of Peace advances a novel historical conceptualization of peace as a process of “right ordering” that involved the careful regulation of violence, the legitimation of colonial authority, and the creation of racial and gendered hierarchies. The volume highlights the many paths of peacemaking that otherwise have hitherto gone unexplored in early American and Atlantic World scholarship and challenges historians to take peace as seriously as violence. Early American peacemaking was a productive discourse of moral ordering fundamentally concerned with regulating violence. The historicization of peace, the authors argue, can sharpen our understanding of violence, empire, and the early modern struggle for order and harmony in the colonial Americas and Atlantic World. Contributors are: Micah Alpaugh, Brendan Gillis, Mark Meuwese, Margot Minardi, Geoffrey Plank, Dylan Ruediger, Cristina Soriano and Wayne E. Lee.Trade Review"These essays illustrate how different perceptions of peace and violence develop from socially constructed understandings of these concepts that, in turn, have often led to misunderstandings rooted in cultural difference. While studies of these misunderstandings, specifically, have previously received little scholarly attention of the colonial Atlantic, this compilation illuminates the importance and need for these studies. The traditional focus on violence has masked the presence and power of peace. The authors in this volume address this deficit and illustrate the central role peace and peacemaking played in affecting imperial and colonial relations in the American Atlantic from the Age of Exploration and Conquest through the Age of Revolutions." Shayna Mehas, Elon University, in World History Connected 17.1 https://worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu/17.1/br_mehas.htmlTable of ContentsForeword  Wayne E. Lee Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Relevance of Peace in Early American History  Michael Goode 1 Imperial Peace and Restraints in the Dutch-Iberian Wars for Brazil, 1624–1654  Mark Meuwese 2 “In Peace with all, or at least in Warre with None”: Tributary Subjects and the Negotiation of Political Subordination in Greater Virginia, 1676–1730  Dylan Ruediger 3 Violent Restraint: Keeping Peace in British America and India  Brendan Gillis 4 Peace, Imperial War, and Revolution in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World  Geoffrey Plank 5 Nonviolence, Positive Peace, and American Pre-revolutionary Protest, 1765–1775  Micah Alpaugh 6 “Avoiding the Fate of Haiti”: Negotiating Peace in Late-Colonial Venezuela  Cristina Soriano 7 The Lessons of Loo Choo: The Historical Vision of American Peace Reformers, 1815–1837  Margot Minardi Afterword: Peace and the End(s) of American History  John Smolenski Index

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Book SynopsisIn Lobbying in Company, Joris van den Tol argues that people made a difference in the Dutch West India Company colony in Brazil (1630–1654). Through a combination of petitions, personal relations, and public opinion, individuals were able to exercise influence on the decision-making process regarding Dutch Brazil. His thorough analysis of these different elements offers a new perspective on the Atlantic and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century as well as a better understanding of lobbying in the early modern period.Table of ContentsList of Figures, Graphs and Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1 Lobbying for the Creation of the WIC 1 The Dutch Republic  1.1 The Cities  1.2 Provincial States  1.3 States General  1.4 The Stadtholders  1.5 Conflicting Powersbr/> 2 The West India Company  2.1 Willem Usselincx  2.2 The Layout of the WIC 3 Brazil 4 Conclusion 2 Lobbying in Brazil 1 1624/1630–1636: Ad Hoc Solutions 2 1637–1646: Consolidation and a Prince in the Tropics  2.1 The Diet as a Colonial Tool  2.2 The Brazilian Diet of 1640  2.3 The 81 Petitions of August 1640  2.4 Petitions for Regulations 3 Religious Affairs  3.1 The Power of the Church 4 Slavery  4.1 Access to Institutions for Non-European 5 The Possible Consequence of Top-Down Decision Making  5.1 Johan Maurits’ Reaction  5.2 The Reactions from the Council of Justice and the Ministers 6 Conclusion 3 Trading Regulations or Free Trade 1 The Opening Moves 2 Selecting the Playing Field 3 Making It Count 4 Making It Count Even More 5 The Role of the Amsterdam City Council 6 Delaying a Decision 7 Lobbying to and from the Colony 8 Conclusion 4 Petitioning the Public Sphere 1 What Is the Public Sphere? 2 The Dutch Public Sphere  2.1 Pamphlets and Dutch Brazil 3 Petitions and Public Opinion  3.1 Printed Petitions 4 Multiple Signatures on Petitions  4.1 Group Petitions to the States General 5 Managing Information of the Revolt in Brazil 6 Petitioning the Public Sphere on Brazil 7 Petitioning the Public Sphere on the Atlantic  7.1 Other Forms of Signatures 8 Conclusion 5 Personal Connections and Direct Lobbying 1 Personal Connections and Societal Capital 2 Appointing a New High Government in Brazil 3 Background Issues  3.1 Peace Negotiations in Münster  3.2 A Frisian Chamber in the WIC 4 Information Control 5 Personal Relations 6 Conclusion 6 The Last Hope, 1652–1654 1 The Second Battle of Guarapes 2 Why Was Brazil Lost? 3 The Delegates from Brazil 4 Requesting a Resolution from the States General 5 A Delegation to Friesland  5.1 The Report from the Friesland Commission 6 Accelerating the Admiralties 7 Seizing Momentum 8 Planning for the Future 9 It Is All about the Money  9.1 It Is about the People 10 The Loss of Brazil 11 Conclusion 7 Lobbying for Money in the Aftermath of Dutch Brazil 1 Return to the Republic 2 Claiming Wages 3 Travel Pennies 4 Shared Features 5 The Printed Petition from the Army 6 Conclusion 8 Making the Company Work Appendix A – Free Trade Exports from Brazil in 1637 Manuscript Sources Secondary Literature and Published Sources Index

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Book SynopsisTizian Zumthurm uses the extraordinary hospital of an extraordinary man to produce novel insights into the ordinary practice of biomedicine in colonial Central Africa. His investigation of therapeutic routines in surgery, maternity care, psychiatry, and the treatment of dysentery and leprosy reveals the incoherent nature of biomedicine and not just in Africa. Reading rich archival sources against and along the grain, the author combines concepts that appeal to those interested in the history of medicine and colonialism. Through the microcosm of the hospital, Zumthurm brings to light the social worlds of Gabonese patients as well as European staff. By refusing to easily categorize colonial medical encounters, the book challenges our understanding of biomedicine as solely domineering or interactive.Table of Contents Acknowledgements  List of Illustrations  Introduction  1 Utilizing a Colonial Archive in Gunsbach, Alsace  2 Theorizing Hospitals in Africa and the Practice of Biomedicine  3 The Context: Trade, Politics, and Health in Colonial Lambaréné  4 Albert Schweitzer and His Hospital in Lambaréné: a Short Historiography 1 Between Pragmatism and Order: Medical Organization and Daily Routine  1 The Hospital Prior to 1927: Establishment and Adaptation  2 Patient Numbers: Reflecting Global and Local Events in Orderly Records  3 Patients and Their Stay: Strict Conditions, Varied Degrees of Enforcement  4 Patient Motivation: Conceptions of Health and Other Treatments  5 Staff from Europe: Clear Guidelines and Flexible Duties  6 African Staff: Versatile Training and Reliable Service  7 Staff in Comparison  8 Infrastructure: Necessity and Maintenance  9 Conclusion 2 In and Out of Control: Technologies and Patients in Surgery  1 Surgery, Technology, and Control  2 Surgery at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital: Context and Development  3 Controlling the Surgical Arena: Actors and Organization  4 Technologies of Control: the Example of Lamps  5 Controlling Bacteria: Asepsis and Manual Labor  6 Controlling Patients via Technology: The Example of Anesthesia  7 Beyond the Operating Theater: Limits and Implications of Control  8 Conclusion 3 Dimensions of Ignorance: Discourses and Practices of Obstetrics  1 Depopulation, Domesticity, Ignorance: Framing Maternity Care in Colonial Africa  2 Maternity Services in Colonial Gabon and at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital  3 Ignoring Training: Recruitment Priorities  4 Giving Birth at and Outside the Hospital  5 Ignoring Context: Maternity Care as a Medical Service  6 Key Areas of Ignorance: Medication and Feeding  7 Conclusion 4 Trial and Error: Drugs and the Treatment of Infectious Diseases  1 Experiments in a Laboratory? The Treatment of Leprosy in Colonial Africa  2 Leprosy in Lambaréné  3 Dysentery in Africa and Lambaréné  4 Trials and Errors: the Use of Pharmaceuticals at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital  5 Conclusion 5 Healing and ‘Civilizing’: Community and Safety in Psychiatric Care  1 Psychiatric Services and Ideology in Colonial Africa and at the Hospital  2 The Mentally Ill in Colonial Gabon and at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital  3 Treating the Mentally Ill at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital: Drugs and Community  4 Accommodating the Mentally Ill at the Hospital: Perspectives on Safety  5 Conclusion 6 Conclusions  1 Connecting Concepts: the Incoherence of Biomedical Practices  2 The Practice of Global Biomedicine: Schweitzer and the Value of the Local  3 Taxonomies of Global Health and the Albert Schweitzer Hospital Bibliography Archival Sources  Interviews  Published References  Index

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Book SynopsisRome engaged in military and diplomatic expansionistic state behavior, which we now describe as ‘imperialism,’ since well before the appearance of ancient sources describing this activity. Over the course of at least 800 years, the Romans established and maintained a Mediterranean-wide empire from Spain to Syria (and sometimes farther east) and from the North Sea to North Africa. How and why they did this is a perennial source of scholarly controversy. Earlier debates over whether Rome was an aggressive or defensive imperial state have progressed to theoretically-informed discussions of the extent to which system-level or discursive pressures shaped the Roman Empire. Roman imperialism studies now encompass such ancillary subfields as Roman frontier studies and Romanization.Trade Review''In conclusione, il più cospicuo significato del lavoro di Burton consiste nell’aver tentato – a mio avviso con successo – di offrire un bilancio equilibrato degli ultimi quarant’anni di ricerca sull’imperialismo romano e di aver condotto il dibattito storiografico sull’argomento fuori dai consolidati e ormai superati binari che lo avevano fino ad ora caratterizzato.'' Michele Bellomo, Latomus vol. 79.3 (2020)Table of ContentsRoman Imperialism  Paul J. Burton  Abstract  Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Imperialism  3 Roman Imperialism  4 The Diversification of the Field  5 Conclusions  References

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Book SynopsisIn 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 French overseas companies as highly centralized and controlled by the state. Through the cases of companies operating in Pondicherry (Coromandel Coast) and Ouidah (Bight of Benin), Elisabeth Heijmans demonstrates the participation of actors not only in Paris but also in provinces, ports and trading posts in the French expansion. The analysis brings to the fore connections across imperial, cultural and religious boundaries in order to diverge from traditional national narratives of the French early modern empire.Table of Contents Acknowledgements General Series Editor’s Preface List of Abbreviations List of Maps, Tables, Figures and Graphs Glossary  Introduction  1When Principals Become Agents  1Structure and Continuity  2Metropolitan Directors  3Upward Social Mobility and the Chamber of Justice  4Safe Investment? Institutional Factors  5Market Access  2Overseas Directors as Mediators  1Overseas and Company Contexts  2Trading Systems and Commercial Actors in Pondicherry and Ouidah  3Multiplicity of Interests within Companies  3Cross-cultural Relations with Rulers  1Sovereign Powers  2Negotiating Cross-cultural Relations  3Competition and Foreign Intermediaries  4Inter-imperial Cooperation  1European Power Dynamics  2Means of Cooperation  3Motives of Cooperation  4Nuances of Competitive Interactions  5Attempts at Self-sustainability  1Accessing Funds  2Integrating Regional Trading Networks  Conclusion  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisColonial government, Pilgrims, the New England town, Native land, the background of religious toleration, and the changing memory recalling the Pilgrims – all are examined and stereotypical assumptions overturned in 15 essays by the foremost authority on the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony. Thorough research revises the story of colonists and of the people they displaced. Bangs’ book is required reading for the history of New England, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Natives, the Mennonite contribution to religious toleration in Europe and New England, and the history of commemoration, from paintings and pageants to living history and internet memes. If Pilgrims were radical, so is this book.Trade Review"This lengthy book draws on Bangs’s four decades of research into the Pilgrims. The range of topics is wide, including discussions and analyses of intellectual and religious history, the divisions of land in the colony, relevant portraits, old town records, and reception history, among other things. This book is not for beginners, and there is no summarizing narrative of the Pilgrims before and after their voyage to the New World. The basics are assumed. But those who know the story and are interested in digging more deeply will want to consult this informative volume, which is a fitting example of Bangs’s prolific work on the Pilgrims and does in fact shed new light." Keith D. Stanglin, Austin Graduate School of Theology, in Church History and Religious Culture CHRC 101.1, pp 119-120 "One problem with Pilgrim history is that everyone thinks they already know it. This book makes clear that in forty years of studying the Pilgrims, Bangs has discovered plenty that is new. Historians of early America owe it to themselves to listen." Michael J. Douma, Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business, in the Journal of Early American History, volume 10, pp. 112-115.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Section 1: The Old Colony Part 1: The Colony  1Plymouth’s Creation: A Congregational Commonwealth  1The Mayflower Compact gave Structure to Plymouth Colony’s Society  2The Mayflower Compact: Lastingly Significant and Influential, or Temporarily Expedient and Forgotten?  3Creating a Consensual Commonwealth  4The Mayflower Compact as the Cornerstone and Framework of Plymouth Colony Constitutionalism  5Dividing the Land, the First New Towns, and Other Democratic Choices  6Plymouth’s Expanded Constitution of 1636, More Towns and Churches, and the Shift to Representative Government  7Churches, Government, Toleration, and Quakers  8Representation by Selectmen, Taxation supporting Churches  9Conclusion  2Tribes and Land Reserves in Plymouth Colony  1Empty New England  2Not Really Empty  3Pokanoket  4Nauset  5Nemasket  6The Massachusetts  7Narragansetts  8Intrigue and Death  9Tribal Land, Tribal Losses  10Nauset, Manomet, and the Mashpee Reserve  11The Pokanoket Indians and the Mount Hope (Montaup) Reserve  12The Massachusetts and the Titicut Reserve  13The Wampanoag  3William Bradford’s Sources for Dutch Law: Edward Grimeston and Emanuel van Meteren  1Civil Marriage in Holland – Edward Grimeston  2King James i and Church Reform – Emanuel van Meteren  3The Union of Utrecht and the Act of Abjuration  4Constructing History  4Intellectual Baggage: The Useful Pilgrims and the Culture of Plymouth Colony  1Death Preceded Them  2Bibles  3Psalm Books  4Theology  5Exegesis  6Piety  7Religious Polemics  8History  9Other  5Towards a Revision of the Pilgrims: Three New Pictures  1Background  2A New Departure  3A New Plymouth?  4Another Portrait of Edward Winslow Part 2: The Towns  6Scituate: Excerpts from the Introductions to the Seventeenth-Century Town Records of Scituate, Massachusetts  1Studying Families in Context: The New Antiquarianism  2Scituate’s Reality and Historiographical Myths  3What kind of town was Scituate? Historians provide answers  4Topics of Conversation  5Business and craft production in Scituate: Ships and Shipping  6Mills, Fishing, Furniture, and Other Work  7Misbehavior  8Prices, Wages, and Livestock  9Some Conclusions  7Eastham Town Records Introduction  1Eastham’s Native Leaders and the First Colonists  8Sandwich Town Records Introduction  9Marshfield Town Records Introduction  1The Sufferings of Arthur Howland Section 2: The Dutch Context of Toleration  10Dutch Aid to Persecuted Swiss and Palatine Mennonites, 1615–1699  1Persecution, Reports, Response, and Remembrance  2Doctrinal Bickering Amidst Persecution – 1614  3Dutch Aid Begins (1640’s)  4Isaac Hattavier’s Attempts to Help (1637–1658)  5Hans Vlamingh’s Contacts and Dutch Government Intercession (1650’s and 1660’s)  61663 Extract of List of the Names of Mennonite Prisoners  7Philipp von Zesen’s Book, Against the Coercion of Conscience(1665)  8Hans Vlamingh, Galenus Abrahamsz. de Haan, Jacob Everling, and Valentin Huetwohl: Disaster Relief in 1671–1672  9The Disaster Year, 1672  10Galenus Abrahamsz. de Haan, William Penn, and David Holtzhalb  11Philippus van Limborch and John Locke’s ‘Letter on Toleration’ (1685–1689)  12Mennonite Relief during the War of the Grand Alliance  11Dutch Contributions to Religious Toleration  1Adriaen van der Donck and the Absence of Toleration in New Netherland  2Why did English People in 1657 Think there was Religious Freedom in Holland?  3Dutch Sources for Ideas on Toleration in Plymouth Colony and Rhode Island  4Dutch International Pleas for Toleration among Protestants  5Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration Section 3: Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration  12The Triumph of the Pilgrims  1First-Person Fun  13The Hypothetical Nature of Plimoth Plantation’s Architecture  1Fashionable Modes of Memory  2The background  31947–1966: Plimoth Plantation’s Pilgrims as Prototypical Suburbanites  41967–1985: Pilgrims as Folk  51986–2000: Pilgrims as Identifiably Ethnic  62000–now: Pilgrims as Representative of their Class  7Hypothetical Nature  8Hypothetical Future  9Postscript 2019  14Always More Pilgrim Books  1The Primary Sources for the Pilgrim Story  2Nineteenth-century Histories  3Twentieth-century Repetition and Revision  4Into the Future – Pilgrims 2000 and Beyond  5Where Do We Go Next?  15Thanksgiving on the Net: Roast Bull with Cranberry Sauce  1Talking Turkey  2The Text  3Thanking Whom?  4Colored Clothes, No Buckled Hats! My Goodness!  5And, Yes, They did Call Themselves “Pilgrims.”  6The Fake Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1623  7The Libertarian’s First Thanksgiving  8A Cornucopia of Grievances  9The National Day of Mourning  10Genocide  11Lies My Teacher’s Telling Me Now  Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs: A List of Publications Concerning the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony  Books – Author or editor of  Book Chapters  Lemmas  Articles  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisDans Essai d’histoire locale, Djiguiba Camara, un intermédiaire colonial et un interprète, décrit l’histoire de la Haute Guinée, de l’empire de Samori Touré et des résistances anticoloniales. In Essay on Local History, Djiguiba Camara, a colonial intermediary and interpreter, describes the history of Upper Guinea, with emphasis on the Empire of Samori Touré and of anticolonial local resistance.Trade Review[...] 'Camara stands alongside powerful thinkers such as Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Joseph Ki-Zerbo, and Boubou Hama in describing the uniqueness and complexity of sociopolitical thought in West Africa. Bertho and Rodet have done a great service in providing this material to readers at the undergraduate, graduate, or scholarly levels. The volume, well-produced and edited by the Brill team and highly accessible in its bilingual form, will yield years of further insights into the place of Islamic genealogical, juridical, and political connections among West African groups previously thought of as largely animist, the role of slavery and violence in postcolonial West African societies prior to full-scale French arrival, and local processes of intellectual production'.[...] Douglas W. Leonard, United States Air Force Academy, in Journal of West African History, Volume 8.1, (2022), pp. 176-178Table of ContentsEditors’ Introduction Remerciements Acknowledgments List of Illustrations / Table des illustrations Introduction – version française Note sur la transcription Prélude : enquête autour d’ un tapuscrit retrouvé  Elara Bertho Sur les traces de Djiguiba Camara : introduction au tapuscrit “Essai d’ histoire locale”  Elara Bertho et Marie Rodet “Essai d’ histoire locale” – version française Introduction – English Version A Note on Transcription Foreword : Investigating a Found Typescript  Elara Bertho In the Footsteps of Djiguiba Camara: An Introduction to the Typescript of “Essai d’ histoire locale”  Elara Bertho and Marie Rodet “Essai d’ histoire locale” – English Version Bibliographie Index des auteurs

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Book SynopsisThanks to Renzo Duin's annotated translation, the voice of Lodewijk Schmidt—an Afrodiasporic Saramaka Maroon from Suriname—is finally available for Anglophone audiences worldwide. More than anything else, Schmidt's journals constitute meticulous ethnographic accounts telling the tragic story of the Indigenous Peoples of the Eastern Guiana Highlands (northern Brazil and southern French Guiana and Suriname). Schmidt's is a story that takes account of the pathological mechanisms of colonialism in which Indigenous Peoples and African Diaspora communities—both victims of colonialism—vilify each other, falling privy to the divide-and-conquer mentality mechanisms of colonialism. Moreover, silenced in the original 1942 publication, Schmidt was sent on a covert mission to determine if the Nazis had established bases and airfields at the southern border of Suriname. Schmidt described the precariousness of the Amazonian forest and the Indigenous Peoples and African Diasporic people who lived and continue to live there, drawing on language that foreshadows our current anthropic and ecological concerns. Duin's profound knowledge of the history, geography, and ecology of the region contextualizes Schmidt's accounts in a new introduction and in his analysis and afterthought forces us to take account of the catastrophe that is deforestation and ethnocide of the Indigenous Peoples of Amazonian Guiana. Lodewijk J. Schmidt (1898-1992) Saramaka from Gansee (modern Saamaka spelling: Ganzë; pronounced Ganzè), upper Suriname river, Suriname, South America. The Saramaka are one of the largest African Diaspora communities in Suriname. He was educated by the Herrnhutters in the school of the Moravian Church, and during the mid-twentieth century he took part in several momentous expeditions, such as the 1935-38 Border Expedition between Suriname and Brazil. The present work is the annotated translation of his accounts of a tri-partite expedition conducted between 1940 and 1942 at and across the southern border of Suriname. Renzo S. Duin (1974) obtained a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Florida (USA). Between 1996 and 2019 he conducted over 40 months of fieldwork in the Guianas (Suriname, French Guiana, and Guyana). His research and publications cover a broad range of topics: socio-political landscape studies; material culture; intangible heritage; social memory; oral history; identity; ethno-astronomy; historical ecology; decolonization; and the intertwining nature of these topics, and as such offers an alternative to the twentieth century model of tropical forest cultures in Amazonia.Table of Contents  List of Figures and Tables   About the Translator and Editor of the Present Volume   Book Summary Part 1: Introduction and Context  1 Definitions and Aspirations  2 The Significance of Lodewijk Schmidt’s Accounts to Anthropology Today  3 The Politics of Authorship and Circumstances of First Publication  4 Mapping the Unknown (or: An Audacious Colonial Endeavor)  5 Notes on the Translation   1 A Short Note on Indigenous Peoples and African Diaspora Communities   2 Some Surinamese Socio-political Concepts   3 Some Typical Surinamese Terms   4 A Short Note on Geographic Names Part 2: Ethnographic Accounts from Three Voyages in Amazonian Guiana  6 Introduction to the Original Publication  7 Notes on Wayana and Trio Demographics and Settlement Names  8 Account of the First Expedition  9 Account of the Second Expedition  10 Account of the Third Expedition Part 3: The People, and other Important Things  11 General Comments  12 Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of the List of Names of Inhabitants  13 The Inhabitants of the Wayana Villages on the Litani and Mapahoni Recorded by Lodewijk Schmidt between November 1940 and January 1941  14 The Inhabitants of the Trio and Wayana Villages in South Suriname and in North Brazil Recorded Between November 1940 and March 1942  15 The Inhabitants of the Wayana Villages on the Jari and Paru de l’Este Recorded Between November 1940 and January 1941  16 Afterthought   Bibliography   Index

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Book SynopsisIn Colonial Encounters in Southwest Canaan during the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age Koch offers a detailed analysis of local responses to colonial rule, and to its collapse. The book focuses on colonial encounters between local groups in southwest Canaan (between the modern-day metropolitan areas of Tel Aviv and Gaza) and agents of the Egyptian Empire during the Late Bronze Age (16th–12th centuries BCE). This new perspective presents the multifaceted aspects of Egyptian colonialism, the role of local agency, and the reshaping of local practices and ideas. Following that, the book examines local responses to the collapse of the empire, mechanisms of societal regeneration during the Iron Age I (12th–10th centuries BCE), the remnants of the Egyptian–Canaanite colonial order, and changes in local ideology and religion.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsII List of FiguresX Introduction  1 Egyptian Colonialism and Canaan in Scholarship: an Overview  2 Notes on Nomenclature  3 Chronological Framework 1 Dawn  1 Decline and Revitalization of Settlements during the Late Bronze I  2 The Advent of Egyptian-style Objects  3 Reassessing the Levantine–Egyptian Interaction during the Late Bronze I 2 The Egyptian Network  1 Modeling the Egyptian Colonial Network  2 Egyptian and Local Centers  3 Local Rulers and the Egyptian Court 3 Goddess in Translation: The Fosse Temple at Lachish  1 Introducing the Fosse Temple in Lachish  2 Assessing the Change  3 Hathor and Tiye  4 The Cult in the Fosse Temple in Context 4 Ambivalence  1 Building Deposits  2 Conspicuous Consumption  3 The Equestrian Goddess  4 Range of Reactions 5 Collapse  1 Questioning the Philistine Paradigm  2 In Search of the Early Philistines 6 Regeneration  1 The Yarkon Basin  2 The Shephelah and the Coastal Plain  3 The Besor Basin, or: the Problem with Gaza  4 Retrospective 7 Reorientations  1 Animal-based Economy and Accumulation of Wealth  2 Pottery Production and Communal Feasting  3 Religion  4 Interpreting Reorientations 8 In the Eye of the Beholder  1 The Egyptian Connection  2 Canaanite Innovations  3 Local Glyptic Production during the Iron Age I–IIA Summary: Colonial Encounters in Southwest Canaan in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Appendix: Chronology of Egyptian Kings Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves, Lúcio de Sousa offers a study on the system of traffic of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean slaves from Japan, using the Portuguese mercantile networks; reconstructs the Japanese communities in the Habsburg Empire; and analyses the impact of the Japanese slave trade on the Iberian legislation produced in the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries.Trade ReviewWinner of the Portuguese Academy of History Award / Gulbenkian Foundation Award in History 2019Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction   Terminology   The Book’s Structure 1 The Chinese Stage   The Chinese Stage   Macao, Kurofune, and the Slave Trade in Japan: The Earliest Evidence   Examples from the Chinese Diaspora 2 The Japanese Stage   The Japanese Stage   The Iberian Union: The Opening of Private Trade between Macao and Manila and Financial Restructuring in Macao   Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Liberation of Macao Ship Slaves 3 The Korean Stage   The Macao Ship and Korean Slaves   European Missionaries and Traders and the Invasion of Korea by Hideyoshi 4 Reorganization of the Portuguese Slave Trade   The End of Korean and Japanese Slavery in the “Nau De Macau” and Its Replacement with Chinese Slavery in the Philippines (1600–14)   The Last Chapter of the Portuguese Presence in Japan 5 The Structure of Portuguese Slavery in Japan   Capture   Other Origins of Japanese Slaves Purchased by the Portuguese   Sale   Transportation   The Society of Jesus and the Ballot System   Price and Number of Slaves 6 Case Studies: Crossing Diasporas   The Chinese Slave Victoria Diaz and the Jewish Conversos   The Japanese slave Gaspar Fernandes and the Jewish Conversos   The 1640 Delegation and the “Korean” Miguel Carvalho   From Slave of the Society of Jesus to Franciscan Priest: The Case of Jerónimo Iyo (伊予)/Geronimo de la Cruz 7 The Iberian World and the Japanese Diaspora   Macao   The Philippines   Goa   Japanese Mercenaries Serving the Habsburgs in Asia   Mexico   Peru   Argentina   Portugal   Spain 8 Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation   From the Reconquista to   Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation: 1550–80   Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation: 1580–1600 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFragments of the Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Census from the Jagiellonian Library: A Lost Manuscript provides a missing chunk of the sixteenth century Marquesado census—one of the earliest known texts in Nahuatl. In the critical edition of this manuscript, Julia Madajczak, Katarzyna Granicka, Szymon Gruda, Monika Jaglarz, and José Luis de Rojas reveal how it traveled across the Atlantic only to be lost during World War II and then rediscovered at the Jagiellonian Library, Poland. When connected to other surviving fragments of the Marquesado census, now held in Mexico and France, the Jagiellonian Library manuscript sheds new light on pre-contact and early colonial Nahua society. The authors use it to discuss the concept of calpolli, family life, and the production of administrative documentation in the early colonial Tepoztlan of today’s Morelos.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Introduction  Julia Madajczak Part 1: The Manuscript 1 The Berlinka Collection  Monika Jaglarz 2 Manuscripta Americana and the Provenance of Mss. Amer. 3, 8, and 10  Monika Jaglarz and Julia Madajczak 3 Mss. Amer. 3, 8, and 10 in Relation to the Marquesado Census Corpus  Julia Madajczak 4 Mss. Amer. 3, 8, and 10: The Scribes  Szymon Gruda 5 The Creation and History of the Tepoztlan Census  Julia Madajczak, Szymon Gruda and Monika Jaglarz Part 2: The People 6 The Jagiellonian Library Census Fragments in Numbers  José Luis de Rojas 7 Family Relations in Tepoztlan  Katarzyna Granicka 8 Administrative Structure and Social Groups in Tepoztlan  Julia Madajczak 9 Land and Tribute in the Jagiellonian Library Census Fragments  José Luis de Rojas Part 3: Transcription and Translation of the Jagiellonian Library Census Fragments 10 Glossary of Nahuatl Terms  Julia Madajczak and José Luis de Rojas 11 Conventions for the Transcription of the Jagiellonian Library Census Fragments  Julia Madajczak and José Luis de Rojas 12 Transcription and Translation  Julia Madajczak and José Luis de Rojas Index

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Book SynopsisCommercial Transitions and Abolition in West Africa 1630–1860 offers a fresh perspective on why, in the nineteenth century, the most important West African states and merchants who traded with Atlantic markets became exporters of commodities, instead of exporters of slaves. This study takes a long-term comparative approach and makes of use of new quantitative data. It argues that the timing and nature of the change from slave exports to so-called ‘legitimate commerce’ in the Gold Coast, the Bight of Biafra and the Bight of Benin, can be predicted by patterns of trade established in previous centuries by a range of African and European actors responding to the changing political and economic environments of the Atlantic world.Table of Contents List of Figures, Maps and Tables  List of Appendices  Introduction: Historiography of the Commercial Transition  1 From Slaves to ‘legitimate commerce’: Different Places, Different Times  2 West African Trade with the Atlantic World  3 Accounting for Regional Differences  4 Organisation Part 1 Trends in the (Non-Slave) Trade with West Africa Over the Eighteenth Century  1 Regional Patterns of (Non-Slave) Trade in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century  1 The Commodity Trade in the Early Eighteenth Century  2 Trade in Africa in the Eighteenth Century  2 Commercial Agriculture and Slave Ship Provisioning 1680–1800  1 Did the Transatlantic Slave Trade Boost West African Commercial Agriculture?  2 Main Results  3 Changing Relative Prices and Trade Risks  4 Revised Estimates of West African Food Exports, 1681–1807  5 Why did British Provisioning Strategies Differ and What were the Impacts on Different Regions?  3 The Transatlantic Slave and Commodity Trades in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century  1 Measuring the Volume and Value of the Commodity Trade  2 Real Value and Structure of West Africa’s Commodity Trade  3 Regional Trade  4 Market Exchange and the Slave Trade Part 2 The Long-Term Roots of the Commercial Transitions: Case Studies  4 The Gold Coast: Gold, Wealth and Power Amongst the Akans  1 Long-term Trade Contacts  2 A New Interpretation of the Impact of Abolition  3 Economic and Political Considerations in 1808  4 Gold and the Asante State  5 Household Labour Decisions  5 The Bight of Biafra: From Export Slavery to Slave Production  1 External Trade  2 The Value of the Commodity Trade and ‘comey’  3 Britain and Palm Oil Trading  4 Institutional Development in Biafra  5 The Demand for Labour and the Internal Slave Trade  6 Household Production of Palm Oil  6 The Bight of Benin: Dahomey and the Dominance of Export Slavery  1 Long-term Trends in Dahomey’s Trade  2 Comparative Value of the Slave and Commodity Trades  3 Trading Partners  4 Dahomean Militarism  5 Militarism and Labour  Conclusion  1 Long-Term Patterns of Trade  2 Diverging Trajectories  3 The Real Impact of Britain’s Abolition Campaign  4 Implications and Future Research  Bibliography   Published Contemporary Sources   Secondary Sources   Online Sources  Index

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Book SynopsisThe last person to ‘pass’ White Australia’s Dictation Test did so in 1907 by submitting a watercolour entitled ‘Advance Australia Fair. For the next 50 years of its existence the thereafter more carefully trained officials ensured no one ever passed again. Here is detailed how the White Australia Policy came to have a fake test of dictation at the heart of its administration. Beginning as an inspired piece of hypocrisy designed to preserve the semblance of imperial equality, in the hands of the early Commonwealth of Australia this ‘education test’ quickly evolved into a test it was impossible to pass.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures 1 As Absurd as It Is Unique  An Introduction 2 Avoid Stigmatising Them by Name as Being Unfit for Civilised Life  The Historical and Ideological Background up to 1901 3 To Place Its Sufficiency beyond Doubt  Crafting the Dictation Test 1901 – 1909 4 On Account of the Elasticity Which It Permits  Evolution of the administration of the Dictation Test 5 A Man Would Need to Live for Three Generations  Chinese exceptionalism 6 Is the Applicant of European (White) Race or Descent?  Defining the Desirable 7 The Humanity of Australia Itself Will in Time Revolt  Passing of the Test and Fading of the Project 8 Heads-I-Win-Tails-You-Lose  Has Australia Passed the Test? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEn Cofradías Afrohispánicas, Manuel Apodaca Valdez ofrece un estudio histórico y comparativo de corte trasatlántico sobre 48 cofradías de afrodescendientes del periodo colonial y del presente, localizadas en zonas geográficas clave de España, Perú, México y República Dominicana. ***** In Cofradías Afrohispánicas, Manuel Apodaca Valdez offers a historical and comparative trans-Atlantic study about 48 confraternities of African descendants of the colonial period and the present, which emerged in key geographical regions of Spain, Perú, México, and the Dominican Republic.Trade Review"This encyclopedic study of organizations led and founded by Africans and their descendants in the broader Ibero-American world starts with the medieval origins of these groups and carries their stories through to the present day. A timely, sweeping book which synthesizes decades of vibrant scholarship on African diaspora lives, cultures, and beliefs, this engaging work brings together many strands in an expansive geographic overview ranging from Spain to Peru. Readers seeking insights on the complex mesh of African and Catholic spirituality and practices will consult this book for years to come." — Nicole von Germeten, Oregon State University "Este estudio enciclopédico de organizaciones dirigidas y fundadas por africanos y sus descendientes en el mundo iberoamericano comienza con los orígenes medievales de estos grupos y lleva sus historias hasta la actualidad. Un libro oportuno y exhaustivo que sintetiza décadas de vibrantes estudios sobre las vidas, culturas y creencias de la diáspora africana, esta atractiva obra reúne muchas vertientes en un amplio panorama geográfico que va desde España hasta Perú. Los lectores que busquen información sobre el complejo entramado de la espiritualidad y las prácticas africanas y católicas consultarán este libro durante años". — Nicole von Germeten, Oregon State University “Cofradías Afrohispánicas is a solid, academic work, properly documented, aware of and interacting with recent scholarship, showing detailed knowledge of primary sources and demonstrating mastery of the subject. The author’s transhistorical approach is innovative. The study brings together geographies not normally considered alongside each other. Its contribution to the field of confraternal studies is to demonstrate the feasibility of a new approach and the rewards such an approach can yield.” — Miguel A. Valerio, Washington University in St. Louis "Cofradías Afrohispánicas es una obra sólida y académica, debidamente documentada, que está al tanto de investigaciones recientes e interactúa con ellas, mostrando un conocimiento detallado de las fuentes primarias y demostrando dominio del tema. El enfoque transhistórico del autor es innovador. El estudio reúne geografías que normalmente no se consideran juntas. Su contribución al campo de los estudios cofradieros es demostrar la viabilidad de un nuevo enfoque y las recompensas que tal enfoque puede producir." — Miguel A. Valerio, Washington University in St. LuisTable of ContentsAgradecimientos Lista de ilustraciones y cuadros Abreviaturas y siglas Introducción 1 Etnicidades en transformación: Diáspora y reencuentro  1 Por el reino de Kalunga: mercado esclavista hacia el Nuevo Mundo  2 Denominaciones: la mirada colonial  3 Cofradías y afrocastas  4 Cristianización y represión de las idolatrías  5 Reconfiguración de identidades  6 Raza, etnicidad e identidad cultural  7 Conclusiones 2 El barroco afrocatólico: Cofradías españolas, siglos XVI–XVII  1 Las cofradías étnicas. ópera crítica  2 Cofradía, fiesta y ritual: danzas, música y comparsas afrosevillanas del siglo XVII  3 Cofradías afrosevillanas  4 La Hermandad de los mulatos de Sevilla  5 Cofradía del rosario de morenos de Cádiz  6 Cofradías de negros y mulatos de Granada, siglo XVI  7 Conclusiones 3 Cofradías afroperuanas: Representaciones de raza, casta, nación e identidad cultural, siglos XVI y XVII  1 Primeras cofradías afroperuanas, siglo XVI  2 Cofradía, casta y diferencia racial  3 Cofradía y nación étnica, siglo XVI  4 Cofradía de los Reyes, de castas jolofe y bran  5 Cofradía de congos de la Virgen del Rosario, Convento de Santo Domingo, 1575–1813  6 Cofradía de San Bartolomé de negros de casta Loango  7 Cofradía de San Antón de morenos libres, Parroquia de San Marcelo, 1581  8 Integración y resistencia furtiva. Cofradías afroperuanas del siglo XVII  9 El barroco afroamericano y la fiesta del Corpus Christi en Cuzco y Lima  10 Conclusiones 4 Cofradías afromexicanas: Devoción barroca y resistencia furtiva, siglos XVII y XVIII  1 Insurrecciones de esclavos, palenques y disolución de las cofradías de nación africana  2 Historia, cultura y vida cotidiana de las cofradías coloniales afromexicanas, siglos XVII–XVIII  3 San Benito de Palermo y sus cofradías  4 Cofradía de nuestra señora de las angustias de morenos criollos  5 De negros y mulatos a morenos y pardos: el caso de la Cofradía de la Preciosa Sangre de Cristo  6 Morenos y mulatos de la cofradía de San Nicolás de Tolentino y Monte Calvario  7 Economía de la fiesta patronal  8 Puebla de los Ángeles: cofradías de afrodescendientes y asiáticos en el siglo XVII  9 Afropoblanos libres en las cofradías  10 Los primeros chinos poblanos y su cofradía  11 Cofradía de Nuestra Señora de la Consolación de negros y mulatos, Templo de la Concordia  12 Bailes y ceremonias: de la censura a la transformación  13 Conclusiones 5 Cofradías afrodominicanas: Historia y religiosidad popular, siglos XVII y XVIII  1 Resistencia furtiva y criollización  2 Cofradías afrodominicanas del periodo colonial  3 Los negros criollos, la identidad y la cofradía de San Juan Bautista  4 Cofradía de San Cosme y San Damián, los marasa, ibeji o mapasa  5 San Lorenzo de los Mina: refugio de cimarrones haitianos  6 Cofradías de Congos del Espíritu Santo  7 Conclusiones 6 El mito y la danza: Patrimonio intangible de las cofradías afrohispánicas contemporáneas  1 Cofradía de Congos del Espíritu Santo de Villa Mella  2 La Veintiuna División: una variante del VodoÚ de Haití  3 La Sarandunga de la Cofradía de San Juan Bautista  4 La Cofradía de los Negros de Sevilla: el presente blanco de un pasado negro  5 Danzas de Negritos, Panalivio y Marinera: música y bailes afroperuanos  6 Cofradías afroperuanas de Lima y Chincha  7 El Carmen, su cofradía y sus danzas  8 La Hermandad del Señor de los Milagros de Lima  9 Cofradía y celebración a San Nicolás de Tolentino en la Costa Chica mexicana 7 La cofradía afrohispánica como agencia de transformación cultural  1 Mayorales y mayordomos  2 Corporativismo, clase social y economía en las cofradías coloniales, 1767–1804  3 Una cofradía colonial en la Costa Chica de México  4 La cofradía afrohispánica: del presente al pasado y del pasado al presente  5 Reflexiones finales: Resistencia, identidad cultural, eurocentrismo y descolonización Apéndice: Transcripciones de archivo histórico Bibliografía Índice

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Book SynopsisThe African cities of Bata and Al-Hoceima were created during the Spanish colonial rule of Equatorial Guinea and Morocco. This book constructs their local history to analyse how Spanish colonialism worked, what its legacies were and the imprints it left on their national histories. The work explains the revision of collective memories of the past in the present as a form of decolonisation that seeks to build different foundations for the future in a transnational and glocal framework. The result is an exciting puzzle of individual and collective memories in which Africans contest their colonial cultural heritage and shape their identities at a global level.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Cities at the decolonial margins 1. Al-Hoceima and Bata: Local histories, glocal impacts 2. Colonial imprints in African city formation 3. Cities after colonial independence: The search for collective affirmation and decolonial contestation 4. Conclusions: African cities asserting themselves in a global world 5. Primary and secondary sources consulted List of tables List of photographs Index

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Book SynopsisThe Bourbon monarchs who ascended the Spanish throne in 1700 attempted to reform the colonial system they had inherited, and, in particular, to make administration more efficient and cost-effective. This book analyses one aspect of the Bourbon reforms, which was the efforts to transform frontier missions, to make the missions more cost-effective, and to accelerate the integration of indigenous peoples in northern Mexico to European cultural norms. In some instances, the Crown had funded missions for more than a century, but with minimal results. The book attempts to show how the mission programs changed, and what the consequences – especially demographic – were for the indigenous peoples brought to live on the missions.Table of ContentsGeneral Series Editor’s Preface Initial Thoughts List of Illustrations and Tables 1 Introduction  1 Setting the Stage for the Bourbon Reforms under Carlos III   1.1 Defining Mission Reform   1.2 Laying Out the Interpretation Part 1: From Hapsburg to Bourbon Missions 2 Preliminaries  1 The Organization of Evangelization in Cholula  2 The Organization of the Evangelization of the Province of Huaxtepec  3 Franciscan Reform: The Apostolic Colleges  4 Secularization of Rural Doctrinas  5 The Jesuits in Spanish America  6 Conclusions 3 The Sierra Gorda and Texas Missions  1 The Missions of Coahuila-Texas  2 The Failure of Congregation on the Texas Gulf Coast  3 Conclusions 4 The Bourbon Reforms and the Ex-Jesuit Missions of Baja California and Northern Sonora  1 The Proverbial Bull in the China Shop: The Franciscans and the Reorganization of the Baja California Missions  2 Reform of the Ex-Jesuit Missions of Northern Sonora  3 Conclusions Part 2: Organizing the New California Missions, 1769–1834 Introduction to Part 2 5 The Jesuit Missions among the Guaraní  1 Treaty Making, Conflict, and Guaraní Diaspora  2 The Post-Jesuit Expulsion Reform of the Guaraní Missions  3 Guaraní Mission Demographic Patterns  4 Mortality Crises, 1733–1740  5 Demographic Patterns on Los Santos Reyes Yapeyú Mission  6 Demographic Patterns on San Lorenzo Mission  7 Gender and Age Structure of the Mission Populations  8 Conclusions 6 Congregation: The Formation of the California Mission Communities  1 Congregation on the San Francisco Bay Area Missions  2 Congregation on the Central Coast Region Missions  3 Conclusions 7 The Mission Urban Plan, Social Control, and Indigenous Resistance  1 The Mission Urban Plan and Social Control on the Chumash Missions  2 Urban Plan on the San Francisco Bay Region Missions  3 The Urban Plan on the Central Coast Missions  4 Social Control and Resistance  5 Conclusions 8 Demographic Patterns on the Missions  1 Demographic Patterns on the Chumash Missions  2 Demographic Patterns on the San Francisco Bay Region Missions  3 Demographic Patterns on the Central Coast Region Missions  4 Conclusions 9 An Alternative Pattern of Development: San Diego and San Luis Rey Missions  1 The Ideal of Congregation  2 Later Patterns of Development on San Diego Mission, 1810–1834  3 Conclusions 10 Non-indigenous Settlers in California  1 The Supply of the Presidios  2 Demographic Patterns of the Soldier-Settler Populations  3 The Demographic Profile of the Villa de Branciforte  4 Conclusion 11 Conclusions Epilogue: Saint or Sinner? Reformers and Missionaries Appendix 1: The Jesuit Presence in Spanish America in 1767 Appendix 2: Population, Baptisms, and Burials on Selected Texas Missions Appendix 3: The Population and Vital Rates of Selected Baja California Missions Appendix 4: The Population and Vital Rates of Selected Jesuit Missions among the Guaraní Appendix 5: The Population and Vital Rates of Selected California Missions and the Villa de Branciforte Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow did individuals advance to the highest ranks in the Dutch colonial administrations? And how, once appointed, was this rank retained? To answer these questions, this book explores the careers of Dutch colonial governors in the 17th century with a focus on two case-studies: Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, governor of Dutch Brazil (1636-1644) and Rijckloff Volckertsz van Goens, Governor-General in Batavia in the 1670s. By comparing a Western (Atlantic, WIC) and an Eastern (Asian, VOC) example, this book shows how networks sustaining career-making differed in the various parts of the empire: the West India Company was much more involved in domestic political debates, and this led to a closer integration of political patronage networks, while the East India Company was better able to follow an independent course. The book shows that to understand the inner workings of the Dutch India companies, we need to understand the lives of those who turned the empire into their career.Table of ContentsGeneral Series Editor’s Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Introduction: Agents of Empire and the Limits of Imperial Agency  1 The Chartered Companies  2 Family and Friends: Politics, Patrimonialism and Patronage   2.1 Institutions and Interest Aggregation   2.2 Factions, Families and Friendship   2.3 Patronage and Clientage  3 Governors and the Companies  4 Johan Maurits Van Nassau-Siegen and Rijckloff Volckertsz. Van Goens  5 Connecting Careers, Constructing Empire 1 Companies, Councils, and Careers  1 Urban Politics: Parties, Factions, and Family Networks  2 The Provinces: Building Blocks of the Federal State  3 The Generality   3.1 The Stadholders  4 Security at Sea: Admiralties, Directorates and Corporations  5 Chartering the Companies  6 Organizing the Companies   6.1 Directors and Investors   6.2 Central Management: XVII and XIX  7 Conclusion 2 Appointing a Stadholder for Brazil September 1634 – September 1636  1 Company Government in Brazil, 1630–1636  2 Johan Maurits Van Nassau-Siegen: A German Nobleman in the Dutch Army  3 Appointing Johan Maurits: The Dutch Side  4 Commanders, Directors, and Governors-General  5 Conclusion 3 Becoming “The Brazilian:” Johan Maurits in Brazil, 1636–1640  1 Establishing a Nobleman’s Court in the New World  2 Commanding the Army of Brazil   2.1 Operations: From Porto Calvo to Bahia, 1637–1638   2.2 Force Size and Logistics  3 The Arciszewski Case   3.1 The Conflict in Brazil   3.2 The Aftermath of the Conflict in the Netherlands  4 Governance, Trade, Taxation and Religion  5 Conclusion 4 Dismissing a Governor-General: Conflicts between the XIX and Johan Maurits, 1640–1644  1 Company and State in the Netherlands: Between Business and Politics  2 Points of Contention   2.1 Claims of Corruption   2.2 Karel Tolner’s Mission  3 Angola and Chile: Increasing the Sway of the South Atlantic Empire   3.1 African Embassies   3.2 The Chile Expedition  4 Enough is Enough: Dismissal of Johan Maurits, and his Attempts to Stay, 1642–1644   4.1 Petitions from Brazil  5 Setting Sail Interlude: Imperial Transitions 5 Rising through the Ranks, 1629–1655  1 A Career in Fast-Forward  2 An Orphan in the Company’s Care, 1629–1633  3 Coromandel and Batavia, Forging Crucial Links  4 The Importance of Marrying up: Marriage as a Career-Making Tool  5 The Old Boys’ Network: Sweers, Van Vliet, Coyett and Caron  6 Diplomatic Missions and Military Command: Career Selling Points?  7 Career Consolidation in the Republic 6 Fighting for Ceylon  1 Persuading the Directors: Van Goens in the Republic, 1655–1656  2 Undermining Van der Meijden  3 Administration, Policy, and Personnel   3.1 Fortifications, Diplomacy, Colonization and Trade   3.2 Private Communications and the Role of Ceylon as an Entrepot  4 Patron-in-chief: Van Goens’ Familial and Patronage Networks, 1662–1670  5 Conclusion 7 Conflict in the Council, 1670–1680  1 Information Control and Company Policymaking  2 Fighting over Policy: Amsterdam, Batavia, Colombo   2.1 The Emperor Strikes Back – August 1670  3 A Breakdown of Reciprocity: Van Goens, Van Reede and the Malabar Command  4 A Year of Disasters and beyond, 1672–1679   4.1 Superintendency and Succession   4.2 Criticism from Ceylon  5 Batavia: Director-general and Governor-General, 1676–1681   5.1 A Letter to Valckenier: Gossip from the Council  6 The Sins of the Father: The Sons of Van Goens in the VOC Conclusion: Forging Careers, Sustaining or Subverting Empire?  1 Career Beginnings  2 Mid-Career: Tenure in Brazil and Ceylon   2.1 The Companies Compared  3 Career End and Recollection  4 Making a Career of Empire  5 Principals and Agents Manuscript Sources Secondary Literature and Published Sources Index

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the negotiation of categorizations in colonial societies in Spanish America from a new vantage point: fiscality. In early modern empires (poll) taxes were a significant factor to organize and perpetuate social inequalities. By this, fiscal categorizations had very concrete effects on the daily life of the categorized, on their assets and on their labor force. They intersected with social categorizations such as gender, profession, age and what many authors have termed race or ethnicity, but which is denominated here, more accurately with a term from the sources, calidad. They were imposed by legislation from above and contested via petitions from below, the latter being a type of source scarcely analyzed until now.Table of ContentsGeneral Series Editor’s Preface Acknowledgements Figures and Tables Abbreviations Introduction 1 Comparing Cajamarca and Michoacán  1.1 Tribute, Labor and Social Units from Prehispanic to Spanish Rule  1.2 Cajamarca: between “pueblo de indios” and “villa de españoles”  1.3 Changing Capitals and Political Units in Michoacán  1.4 Demography in the Regions of Study 2 Spanish Colonial Tribute Legislation from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century  2.1 Tributary Legislation: Transcending Previous Studies  2.2 Colonial Obligations besides Tribute: Indirect Taxes and Labor Service  2.3 Tribute and Tributaries: A Perspective from above  2.4 Tribute Categorizations from the Conquest to the Bourbon Reforms  2.5 The Bourbon Reforms in the Eighteenth Century  2.6 The Long Journey toward Abolition in the Nineteenth Century 3 Negotiating Belonging and “Calidad” in Petitions  3.1 The Petitions  3.2 Comparing General Patterns and Chronology  3.3 Ancestry and (il)Legitimacy as Central Elements in the Petitions 4 Petitions by People Categorized as “Migrants”  4.1 “Migrant” Petitions from Cajamarca, Peru  4.2 “Migrant” Petitions from Michoacán, New Spain 5 Petitions Negotiating “Mixed” Ancestry  5.1 Mestizos  5.2 Mulattos  5.3 Ambiguous Categorizations in Cajamarca: (mixtos) quinteros  5.4 The Relationship between laboríos and mulattos in New Spain  5.5 Petitions by Women  5.6 Unknown Ancestry: The Case of the Foundlings 6 Fiscal Categorizations after Independence  6.1 Cajamarcan Categorizations and Petitions in the Nineteenth Century  6.2 Fiscal Categorizations in Michoacán in the Nineteenth Century 7 Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index

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