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Assembling The Tropics - Science And Medicine In Portugal'S Empire, 1450â€“1700

by Hugh (University Of Utah) Cagle

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 This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern world. It highlights little-known linkages between Asia and the Atlantic world.
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Assembling The Tropics - Science And Medicine In Portugal''S Empire, 1450-1700

by Hugh Cagle

35,78€ + 10% CARD

 This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern world. It highlights little-known linkages between Asia and the Atlantic world.
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Global Gifts - The Material Culture Of Diplomacy In Early Modern Eurasia

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 Global Gifts examines the ways in which material goods contributed to the growth of political exchanges between Asia, Africa and Europe, and specifically how those exchanges influenced the global production and circulation of art and material culture before 1800.
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Assembling The Tropics - Science And Medicine In Portugal'S Empire, 1450â€“1700

by Hugh (University Of Utah) Cagle

59,48€ + 10% CARD

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 This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern world. It highlights little-known linkages between Asia and the Atlantic world.
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Global Gifts - The Material Culture Of Diplomacy In Early Modern Eurasia

132,48€ + 10% CARD

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 Global Gifts examines the ways in which material goods contributed to the growth of political exchanges between Asia, Africa and Europe, and specifically how those exchanges influenced the global production and circulation of art and material culture before 1800.
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The Sugar Plantation In India And Indonesia - Industrial Production, 1770â€“2010

by Ulbe (International Institute Of Social History, Amsterdam) Bosma

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 In this book, Ulbe Bosma details how the British and Dutch introduced the sugar plantation model in Asia around 1800, when abolitionist campaigns in the Caribbean began, and refashioned it over time. Previously, European markets had almost exclusively relied on Caribbean sugar produced by slave labor.
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Luxury In Global Perspective - Objects And Practices, 1600â€“2000

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 This anthology charts the different contexts in which luxury objects have been used across the globe, ranging from the social practices linked to these objects to their production, exchange, and consumption. Using luxury goods as a conduit, Luxury in Global Perspective enriches our understanding of global history.
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The Sugar Plantation In India And Indonesia - Industrial Production, 1770â€“2010

by Ulbe (International Institute Of Social History, Amsterdam) Bosma

133,84€ + 10% CARD

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 In this book, Ulbe Bosma details how the British and Dutch introduced the sugar plantation model in Asia around 1800, when abolitionist campaigns in the Caribbean began, and refashioned it over time. Previously, European markets had almost exclusively relied on Caribbean sugar produced by slave labor.
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Networks Of Empire - Forced Migration In The Dutch East India Company

by Kerry (Rice University, Houston) Ward

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 This examination of the Dutch East India Company grapples with the theoretical nature of empire, examines how empires exist through the movement and control of people within their realms, and proposes a new concept of diaspora, demonstrating how all empires have unique networks of free and forced migration.
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Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, And The Islands - Southeast Asia In Global Context, C.800â€“1830

by Victor (University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Lieberman

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 This book seeks both to integrate Southeast Asia into world history and to rethink much of Eurasia's premodern past. It argues that Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan, China, and South Asia all embodied idiosyncratic versions of a hitherto unrecognized pattern of political and cultural integration that was governed by Eurasian-wide climatic, commercial, and military stimuli.
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Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, And The Islands - Southeast Asia In Global Context, C.800â€“1830

by Victor (University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Lieberman

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 This book seeks both to integrate Southeast Asia into world history and to rethink much of Eurasia's premodern past. It argues that Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan, China, and South Asia all embodied idiosyncratic versions of a hitherto unrecognized pattern of political and cultural integration that was governed by Eurasian-wide climatic, commercial, and military stimuli.
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Cross-Cultural Trade In World History

by Philip D. Curtin

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 A single theme is pursued in this book - the trade between peoples of differing cultures through world history. Professor Curtin has attempted to move beyond a Europe-centred view of history, to one that can help us understand the entire range of societies in the human past.
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Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration On The Mainland - Southeast Asia In Global Context, C.800â€“1830

by Victor (University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Lieberman

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 Lieberman argues that over a thousand years, each of mainland Southeast Asia's great lowland corridors experienced a pattern of accelerating integration punctuated by recurrent collapse. These trajectories were synchronized not only between corridors but, most curiously, between the mainland as a whole, much of Europe, and other sectors of Eurasia.
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Law And Colonial Cultures - Legal Regimes In World History, 1400â€“1900

by Lauren (New York University) Benton

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 Advances an interesting perspective in world history, arguing that institutions and culture serve as important elements of international order. Focusing on colonial legal politics, it uses case studies to trace a shift from the multicentric law of early empires to the state-centered law of the colonial world.
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Africa And Africans In The Making Of The Atlantic World, 1400â€“1800

by John (Millersville University, Pennsylvania) Thornton

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 This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences, economic, political, and cultural, of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World.
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The Rise And Fall Of The Plantation Complex - Essays In Atlantic History

by Philip D. (The Johns Hopkins University) Curtin

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 A new edition of Philip Curtin's classic work on the history of the plantations.
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Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration On The Mainland - Southeast Asia In Global Context, C.800â€“1830

by Victor (University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Lieberman

104,09€ + 10% CARD

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 Lieberman argues that over a thousand years, each of mainland Southeast Asia's great lowland corridors experienced a pattern of accelerating integration punctuated by recurrent collapse. These trajectories were synchronized not only between corridors but, most curiously, between the mainland as a whole, much of Europe, and other sectors of Eurasia.
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Rethinking World History - Essays On Europe, Islam And World History

by Marshall G. S. Hodgson

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 Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins? This text challenges adherents of Eurocentrism and multiculturalism to rethink the roles of Europe and Islamic civilisation in world history.
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Rethinking World History - Essays On Europe, Islam And World History

by Marshall G. S. Hodgson

124,37€ + 10% CARD

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 Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins? This text challenges adherents of Eurocentrism and multiculturalism to rethink the roles of Europe and Islamic civilisation in world history.
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Africa And Africans In The Making Of The Atlantic World, 1400â€“1800

by John (Millersville University, Pennsylvania) Thornton

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 This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences, economic, political, and cultural, of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World.
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Law And Colonial Cultures - Legal Regimes In World History, 1400â€“1900

by Lauren (New York University) Benton

33,80€ + 10% CARD

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 Advances an interesting perspective in world history, arguing that institutions and culture serve as important elements of international order. Focusing on colonial legal politics, it uses case studies to trace a shift from the multicentric law of early empires to the state-centered law of the colonial world.
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The Cambridge Dictionary Of Bioethics

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 The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics provides the first global history of medical ethics.
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Rachel: Love'S Aftermath

by Alex Bartoli

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 Rachel is on the rebound from her beautiful lover, Kaye. She is now determined to follow her quest for self-discovery to the wildest shores of erotic submission.
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Understanding The Magickal Path

by Kiera Bloodrose

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 This edition is meant to be on library shelves everywhere, including churches. This book touches on subjects that are second nature so much where they're hardly ever mentioned in books or even to our family and friends let alone our children. You'll see a
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