History

Humans in Shackles is a testament to the more than twenty years the author has spent studying the history of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade.

'The Oxford Handbook of Commodity History' features contributions from scholars involved in the field's development across a range of countries and linguistic regions. Each of the handbook's 31 chapters focuses on an important theme within commodity history: essential approaches, global histories, modes of production, people and land, environmental impact, consumption, and new methodologies.

Contents -- Foreword: Reclaiming Ancestral Narratives -- Introduction: Kings, Kingship and Kingdoms in African History -- Chapter 1: Ancient Egypt and Nubia: Kings of Flood and Kings of Rain -- Chapter 2: The Sudanic Empires: The Gold, the Arts, the River -- Chapter 3: The Solomonic Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia -- Plate Section One -- Chapter 4: The Yoruba and Benin Kingdoms -- Chapter 5: The Kongo Kingdom -- Chapter 6: Buganda -- Chapter 7: From Hausa Kingdoms to the Sokoto Caliphate -- Plate Section Two - Chapter 8: The Akan Forest Kingdom of Asante -- Chapter 9: The Zulu Kingdom --

A compelling history of British imperial culture, showing how it was adopted and subverted by colonial subjects around the world. As the British Empire expanded across the globe, it exported more than troops and goods. In every colony, imperial delegates dispersed British cultural forms. Facilitated by the rapid growth of print, photography, film, and radio, imperialists imagined this new global culture would cement the unity of the empire. ...

Southeast Asia is one of the most significant regions in the world for tracing human prehistory over a period of 2 million years. Migrations from the African homeland saw settlement by Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis. Anatomically Modern Humans reached Southeast Asia at least 60,000 years ago to establish a hunter-gatherer tradition, adapting as climatic change saw sea levels fluctuate by over 100 metres. From about 2000 BC, settlement was affected by successive innovations that took place to the north and west.

This book explores contested notions of "Chineseness" in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong during the Cold War, showing how competing ideas about "Chineseness" were an important ideological factor at play in the region.

Maps -- 1: Introduction: Islands and the British Empire in the Age of Sail -- 2: Islands, Voyaging and Empires in the Age of Sail -- 3: Britain's European Island-Empire, 1793-1815 -- 4: Islands of Settlement: Britain's Western North Atlantic Islands in the Age of Sail, 1497-1835 -- 5: 'Sailing on the same uncertain sea': The Windward Islands of the Caribbean -- 6: The Route to the East: Atlantic Islands and Britain's Maritime Empire -- 7: Britain's Western Indian Ocean Island-Scape -- 8: Islands and the Age of Revolutions in the Indian and Pacific Oceans -- 9: Empire in Oceania: Knowing the Sea of Islands -- 10: Islands of Incarceration and Empire Building in Colonial Australia -- 11: Afterword. Islands and the British Empire: From the Age of Sail to the Age of Steam -- Index.

Women, Gender and Sexuality in China: A Brief History serves as a focal textbook for undergraduate courses on women, gender, and sexuality in Chinese history. Thematically structured, it surveys important aspects of gender systems and gender practices throughout Chinese history, from the earliest period to the modern era.

Drawing on a wealth of previously unseen documents, sourced by Freedom of Information requests, together with interviews with government and intelligence agency officials, Louise Kettle questions whether the British government has learned anything from its military interventions in the Middle East, from the 1950s to the 2016 Iraq Inquiry report.

Chapter 1 Where Are We Going? The Project of Humanity -- chapter 2 Comparing Global History to World History -- chapter 3 Humanity and Globalization -- chapter 4 Identity in a Global Era -- chapter 5 The Advancement of Humanity -- chapter 6 The Global and the Local: Parts and Wholes -- chapter 7 The New Global Merchants of Light -- chapter 8 Revisiting Barraclough's Contemporary History -- chapter 9 On the Brink of the Global -- chapter 10 Whither Globalization?

The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780-1867 traces the inland origins of slaves leaving West Central Africa at the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade.

The primary source documents in this volume tell enthralling stories, such as how slave woman Ellen Craft utilized her particularly pale complexion to pose as a free white man overseeing his slaves to free herself and her husband, and how Henry Brown successfully shipped himself to freedom in a box measuring scarcely 3 feet by two feet by six inches deep--despite being more than six feet tall ...

This book tells the story of humankind as producers and reproducers from the Paleolithic to the present. Renowned social and cultural historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks brings a new perspective to world history by examining social and cultural developments across the globe, including families and kin groups, social and gender hierarchies, sexuality, race and ethnicity, labor, religion, consumption, and material culture.

Containing records of some 25,000 slaving voyages between 1595 and 1867, this data set forms the basis of most of the papers included in this collection. Other papers offer quantitative analysis in the ethnicity of slaves, mortality trends and slaves' reconstruction of their identities.

This volume classifies and theorizes the systems underlying naming practices in Asia, especially in Southeast Asia where systems are abundant and fluid. Using historical and socio-anthropological perspectives, the authors of this exceptionally close collaborative effort show the intricate connections between naming systems, notions of personhood and the prevailing ethos of interpersonal relations.