How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States
Michelle Craig McDonald
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512827552
Pub Date: May 2025
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
Illuminates how coffee tied the economic future of the early United States to the wider Atlantic worldCoffee is among the most common goods traded and consumed worldwide, and so omnipresent its popularity...
Politics, Literature, and Imagination Among the Early Modern Ottomans
Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9781512827309
Pub Date: March 2025
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
How Turkish poetry became the preferred mode for communicating, debating, and shaping political and social experience in the early Ottoman EmpireOccasions for Poetry is a history of how Turkish poetry...
An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey into and out of Slavery
Lindsay O'Neill
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512827200
Pub Date: February 2025
Format: Hardcover
200 Pages
A fascinating account of two eighteenth-century princes from East Africa, their travels, and their encounters with the British Empire and slaveryIn 1716 two princes from Mpfumo—what is today Maputo,...
Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England
John Kuhn
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512825091
Pub Date: December 2024
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
How early modern theatrical practice helped construct the category of “pagan” as a tool of European self-definition and colonial ambitionIn Making Pagans, John Kuhn argues that drama played a powerful...
Explores the information and communication practices of the Portuguese empire in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century IndiaEmpire of Contingency explores the information and communication practices of...
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippine islands. Drawing on the rich archives of Spain’s Asian empire, Kristie Patricia...
Between the Bridge and the Barricade explores how translations of non-Jewish texts into Jewish languages impacted Jewish culture, literature, and history from the sixteenth century into modern times....
