Description
Book SynopsisIan Coller is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He is the author of
Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 1798-1831 (2010) winner of the Australian Historical Association's W.K. Hancock award, and
Muslims and Citizens: Islam, Politics and the French Revolution (2020).
Trade ReviewEach volume could successfully stand alone as a reference work on an era: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Empire, and the Modern Age ... The introductory essay to each is a valuable resource for comparing traditional political and economic histories with the more critical and cultural works presented in subsequent chapters. Accompanying each volume is a list of illustrations, notes, further reading, and an index ... Overall, students seeking a comparative, interdisciplinary, and compelling account of the spread of Western empires will find much of interest here. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty * CHOICE *
Table of ContentsGeneral Editor's Preface,
Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) Introduction,
Ian Coller (La Trobe University, Australia) 1. War,
Christopher Tozzi (Howard University, USA) 2. Trade,
Junko Thérèse Takeda (Syracuse University, USA) 3. Natural Worlds,
Laura J. Mitchell (University of California Irvine, USA) 4. Labor,
Abigail Swingen (Texas Tech University, USA) 5. Mobility,
Michael H. Fisher (Oberlin College, USA) 6. Sexuality,
Merry E.Wiesner-Hanks (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA) 7. Resistance,
Karwan Fatah-Black (University of Leiden, Netherlands) 8. Race,
Vanita Seth (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) Notes Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index
