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For more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This all changed with the war and as India, Burma, Ceylon, and Malaya wrested independence from the British empire. Set against the tumult of the postwar period, Boats in a Storm centers on the legal struggles of migrants to retain their traditional rhythms and patterns of life, illustrating how they experienced citizenship and decolonization. Even as nascent citizenship regimes and divergent political trajectories of decolonization papered over migrations between South and Southeast Asia, migrants contin...
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Centennial issue for 1884 includes the text of a sermon preached for the occasion: The marvel of spiritual life by Robert Allyn and a "Centennial historical manual of the Southern Illinois Conference 1784 - 1852 - 1884" prepared by Edwin A. Hoyt.