We've all had alien contact. All 7 billion of us. We just don't remember it.Do you want to remember your encounter with aliens?Do you want to have a new alien experience that you can remember?Did you
A relentless enemy…An old wolf's last hunt…The future of two species hanging in the balance…The Darshik war machine is flagging, but the war is far from over. Even as an exhausted Federation military
The Black Fleet Saga continues…A human planet has been invaded. The enigmatic Darshik have landed troops on a frontier world and have begun subduing major cities even as their blockade repels all atte
The Phage War had been a devastating conflict for the Terran Confederacy. Even with the destruction of their terrifying, implacable foe, humanity is still reeling. Political alliances are crumbling an
African slavery was pervasive in Spain's Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean col
Provides historical context on the forced removal of Cherokee Indians from their homeland in the southeast to the Oklahoma Territory following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
The past half-century has produced a mass of information regarding slave resistance, ranging from individual acts of disobedience to massive uprisings. Many of these acts of rebellion have been studi
Spain and Portugal contested control over the disputed Rio de la Plata borderlands, and the Guarani populations of the Jesuit missions provided manpower for campaigns. Conflict, however, brought demog
Quakers and Native Americans is a collection of essays examining the history of interactions between Quakers and American Indians from the 1650s, emphasising American Indian influence on Quaker histor
This book invites faculty teaching at international branch campuses (IBCs), and international institutions using western curricula, to consider the opportunities and challenges of implementing America
In the Name of the Battle against Piracy discusses the antipiracy campaigns in Europe and Asia in the 16th-19th centuries, exploring how the state used them to establish its authority, and how state a
In The Chinese Annals of Batavia Leonard Blussé and Nie Dening open up a veritable treasure trove of Chinese archival sources about the autonomous history of the Chinese community of Batavia.
In this volume historians, anthropologists, musicologists, political scientists and literary scholars address different dimensions of cosmopolitanism in Portugal, Brazil, Angola and other parts of the
The 1624 Tumult of Mexico in Perspective proves that, despite the various conflicts underlying the disturbances in New Spain between circa 1620 and 1650, there was no intention to do away with the aut
In Silver by Fire, Silver by Mercury Saul Guerrero presents a chemical history of the refining of silver ores in New Spain and Mexico, 16c to 19c, with a quantitative analysis of its industrial practi
This edition is the first complete English translation, with complete annotations, of The Commentaries by the erudite Spanish soldier-diplomat D. García de Silva y Figueroa, ambassador to Persia (1614
Today, a century and a half after the abolition of slavery across most of the Americas, the idea of monetary reparations for former slaves and their descendants continues to be a controversial one. Lo
In this work, Adam Knobler demonstrates the intimate connection between medieval mythologies of the non-Western world, and early modern European imperial expansion to Africa, Asia and the Americas.
In The Political Economy of Indigo in India, 1580-1930: A Global Perspective Ghulam A. Nadri explores the dynamics of the indigo industry and trade in India from a long-term perspectives and in a glob
In The Boxer Codex, two scholars have transcribed, translated and annotated a unique and illustrated late-16th century Spanish manuscript that deals with the early-modern geography, history and ethnog
Annexation and the Unhappy Valley addresses the expansion and consolidation of British colonial power in the Sindh region of South Asia. The book focuses on colonial direct rule, rather than the more
In Encounters on the Opposite Coast Markus Vink offers a detailed narrative of the first half century of cross-cultural interaction between the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Nayaka state of M
Beyond Empires explores the complexity of empire building from the point of view of self-organized cooperative networks, rather than from the point of view of the central state.
In Hinterlands and Commodities, well-known historians and an economist examine perennially important questions concerning temporal and spatial relationships among central places, hinterlands, commodit
A cross-disciplinary analysis of texts from two moments in Spanish writing about Mexican missions between the mid-sixteenth century and the early seventeenth century. The analysis identifies a change
In Convict Labor in the Portuguese Empire, Timothy J. Coates examines the numbers, rationale, and realities of convict labor (largely) in Angola from 1800 to 1932. Mozambique is a secondary area as w
Discusses the Lewis and Clark expedition, including how the explorers prepared, who helped them on their way, and how important the expedition was for westward expansion of the country.
Gives historical context to the Louisiana Purchase, including why the United States wanted to simply buy New Orleans, why Napolean sold the territory, and why the purchase was so important to westward
Discusses the creation of the Transcontinental Railroad, including what companies built it, why Native Americans attacked the construction crews, and its importance to westward expansion.
Spain was a late entrant into the slave trade, but also the last to leave. The book looks at the circumstances and forces driving Spain vis-a-vis the trade. Editors Fradera (history, Universitat Pompe
Concerns over native resistance to evangelization on and beyond the Chichimeca frontier (the frontier between sedentary and nomadic natives) prompted the Augustinian missionaries to use graphic visual
Today the bulk of tangible wealth around the globe resides in buildings and physical infrastructure rather than moveable goods. This situation was not always the case. "Investing in the Early Modern B
Pivoting his study on Tod's (1782-1835) influential Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, Freitag (history, Ithaca College) explores the relationships between the political power of the British imperia
This work examines the history of Chinese migration to and settlement in the Indian Ocean island country of Mauritius from colonial times to the present. The authors pay particular attention to the pl
Historians and other scholars examine contributions by the Germany Protestant denomination and its members to the European colonization of the New World during the 18th and early 19th centuries. The t
In the 18th century, points out Marques (Instituo de Investigacao Cientifica Tropical) the trans-Atlantic slave trade was merely another instance of trafficking in people that had been going on and ac
