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Assembling the Tropics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

Assembling the Tropics

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.

Craven
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 650

Craven

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1985
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  • Publisher: Unknown

In 1750, Peter Craven (ca. 1712-1792) settled in North Carolina from New Jersey. His ancestors were originally from England. Descendants and relatives lived in North Carolina, Missouri, Kansas and elsewhere.

Medicine, Trade and Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Medicine, Trade and Empire

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-03
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Garcia de Orta’s Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was one of the first books to take advantage of the close relationship between medicine, trade and empire in the early modern period. The book was printed in Goa, the capital of the Portuguese empire in the East, and the city where the author, a Portuguese physician of Jewish ancestry, lived for almost thirty years. It presents a vast array of medical information on various drugs, spices, plants, fruits and minerals native to India or adjoining territories. In addition, it includes information concerning indigenous methods of healing as well as a far-reaching assessment of ancient and modern authors on Asian materia medic...

Globalism in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 652

Globalism in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age

Although it is fashionable among modernists to claim that globalism emerged only since ca. 1800, the opposite can well be documented through careful comparative and transdisciplinary studies, as this volume demonstrates, offering a wide range of innovative perspectives on often neglected literary, philosophical, historical, or medical documents. Texts, images, ideas, knowledge, and objects migrated throughout the world already in the pre-modern world, even if the quantitative level compared to the modern world might have been different. In fact, by means of translations and trade, for instance, global connections were established and maintained over the centuries. Archetypal motifs developed...

The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 721

The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History

This landmark collection of essays by thirty-five historians, working on a global scale, brings together the latest knowledge and perspectives about the long origins and transformations of today's illicit drugs such as cannabis, heroin, and cocaine.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 759

The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Written by leading scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of modern empires. Spanning the era of modern imperial history from the early sixteenth century to the present, it challenges both the rather insular focuses on specific experiences, and gives due attention to imperial formations outside the West including the Russian, Japanese, Mughal, Ottoman and Chinese. The companion is divided into three broad sections. Part I - Times - surveys the three main eras of modern imperialism. The first was that dominated by the settlement impulse, with migrants - many voluntarily and many more by force - making new lives in the colonies. This impulse gave way, mos...

A Singular Remedy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

A Singular Remedy

Innovative exploration of how medical knowledge was shared between and across diverse societies tied to the Atlantic World around 1800.

The Smell of Slavery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

The Smell of Slavery

Slavery, capitalism, and colonialism were understood as racially justified through false olfactory perceptions of African bodies throughout the Atlantic World.

European Colonialism since 1700
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 323

European Colonialism since 1700

This masterful synthesis provides a much-needed, complete survey of European colonialism from 1700 to decolonization in the twentieth century. Written by an award-winning author, this advanced undergraduate and graduate level textbook bridges, for the first time, the early modern Atlantic empires and the later Asian and African empires of 'high imperialism'. Viewing colonialism as a phenomenon of contact between Europe and the rest of the world, the author takes an 'entangled histories' approach, considering the surprising ways in which the imperial powers of Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, France and the Netherlands displayed their identities in colonial settings, as much as in their imperial capitals. The author illuminates for students the common themes of colonial government, economic development and cultural contact across empires, and reveals the ways in which these themes played out, through contrast of the differing development, structure and impact of each empire.