This book is the first to trace the unique monetary history of the Indian Ocean World. Long-dista...

This volume views the study of disease as essential to understanding the key historical d...

Twenty-six authors from diverse scholarly backgrounds look at the vexed, traumatic intersections ...

This book examines trades in animals and animal products in the history of the Indian Ocean Wo...

Significant numbers of the people enslaved throughout world history have been children. The vast ...

This book explores the life of Robert Lyall, surgeon, botanist, voyager, British Agent to the ...

Child Slaves in the Modern World is the second of two volumes that examine the distincti...

This collection examines cloth as a material and consumer object from early periods to the twenty...

This volume comprises a selection ofessays by scholars from a variety of disciplines that di...

This book examines the history and impact of environmental change in Madagascar. Drawing on inter...