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The Temptations of Trade reveals the opportunities and tensions of doing business in regions far from strict imperial control, where the actions of individuals could both connect empires and drive them to war.

The Barberini Butchers shows how seventeenth-century Rome’s preoccupation with the consumption of meat was the result of papal policy. But this consumption was not sustainable, fueling sensational rumors of murder and cannibalism and, Bradford A. Bouley contends, sparking the outbreak of civil war, as vassals rebelled against papal oversight.

Inner Zone unearths a buried history of violence within the 1992–1995 siege of Sarajevo. As Serb forces besieged the city, Serb civilians, particularly women, became targets for retribution—but they couldn’t discuss their experiences postwar. By tracing this silencing, Inner Zone advances a new approach to telling contentious histories of war.

Making Migrants is an ethnography of transnational migration and the bureaucracy that sustains it. It explores how global migration management is introduced and facilitated between Tajikistan and Russia, revealing how well-meaning migration officials entrench and inevitably advance colonial rationalities.

Featuring reproductions of twenty historical maps and using historical examples of people, Claiming Land, Claiming Water explores how and why some people imagined and made claims to bounded space—and how and why other people confounded or challenged those claims—through a formative period of intense change in North America and the Atlantic world.