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revealing how closely they are linked in
their behaviour and tactics.
‘Miller has written a splendid sceneshifting
narrative of dilemmas of
power, with cameos of individual
terrorists, theoreticians of terror,
architects of state terror, and scenes
of terror across the globe. His study
offers deep understanding of the basic
and enduring reasons for both Red
and White Terror.’
Philip Pomper, Wesleyan University
2012 228 x 152 mm 270pp
978-1-107-02530-1 Hardback £55.00
978-1-107-62108-4 Paperback £18.99
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On Trans-Saharan Trails
Islamic Law, Trade Networks,
and Cross-Cultural Exchange in
Nineteenth-Century Western
Africa
Ghislaine Lydon
University of California, Los Angeles
This study is the first of its kind to
examine the history and organization
of trans-Saharan trade in western
Africa using original source material. It
documents the internal dynamics of a
trade network system based on a case
study of ‘Berber’ traders from the Wad
Nun region, who specialized in outfitting
camel caravans in the nineteenth
century.
2012 228 x 152 mm 494pp 12 tables
978-1-107-61178-8 Paperback £22.99
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978-0-521-88724-3 Hardback £60.00
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Cross-Cultural
Exchange in the
Atlantic World
Angola and Brazil during the Era
of the Slave Trade
Roquinaldo Ferreira
University of Virginia
This book argues that Angola and Brazil
were connected, not separated, by the
Atlantic Ocean. Roquinaldo Ferreira
focuses on the cultural, religious and
social impacts of the slave trade on
Angola. Reconstructing biographies
of Africans and merchants, he
demonstrates how cross-cultural trade,
identity formation, religious ties and
resistance to slaving were central to the
formation of the Atlantic world.
‘With great historical imagination,
Ferreira resurrects detailed stories of
individuals who were integrally tied
to the largest branch of the Atlantic
slave trade. In so doing, he shows the
limitations of analytical categories
that historians have applied in slave
studies. The world Ferreira describes
was one in which commoners and
elites alike constantly reshaped social
and cultural identities to fit particular
circumstances. His innovative
‘microhistorical’ approach charts a
new direction for Atlantic history.’
Walter Hawthorne, Michigan State University
and author of From Africa to Brazil: Culture,
Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade,
1600–1830
African Studies, 121
2012 228 x 152 mm 280pp
9 b/w illus. 4 maps
978-0-521-86330-8 Hardback £60.00
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Textbook
Subaltern Lives
Biographies of Colonialism in the
Indian Ocean World, 1790–1920
Clare Anderson
University of Leicester
Subaltern Lives builds a fascinating new
picture of colonial life in the nineteenthcentury
Indian Ocean using biographical
fragments. Clare Anderson reveals the
importance of penal transportation
for colonial expansion, shedding
new light on convict experiences of
penal settlements and colonies, and
the relationship between convictism,
punishment and colonial labour regimes.
Contents: 1. Subaltern lives: an
introduction; 2. Dullah; 3. George Morgan;
4. Narain Singh; 5. Liaquat Ali and Amelia
Bennett; 6. Edwin Forbes; 7. Conclusion;
Bibliography.
Critical Perspectives on Empire
2012 228 x 152 mm 232pp
18 b/w illus. 6 maps
978-1-107-01509-8 Hardback £55.00
978-1-107-64544-8 Paperback £19.99
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The Body of the
Conquistador
Food, Race and the Colonial
Experience in Spanish America,
1492–1700
Rebecca Earle
University of Warwick
Could European bodies thrive in
the Indies Would Indians turn into
Spaniards if they ate Spanish food This
fascinating history of food, colonisation
and race shows that attitudes about
food were fundamental to European
colonialism and understandings of
physical difference in the Age of
Discovery.
‘With its focus on food and corporeal
well-being, [this book] opens a
fascinating new chapter in Spain’s
conquest and colonization of the
Americas. What were Spaniards to
eat as they encountered unfamiliar
foodstuffs … that reportedly did
irreparable damage to both body and
mind As for the natives, was their
stature and temperament connected
to ‘the poor quality of the food they
eat’ … As Earle explains in this new
important study, these and related
questions sparked lively debate on
both sides of the Atlantic. Stunningly
original and deeply researched, her
book is not to be missed. It is essential
reading for both the history of the
Americas and early modern ideas
about the relationship between food,
culture, bodies, and health.’
Richard L. Kagan, Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of
History, Johns Hopkins University
Critical Perspectives on Empire
2012 228 x 152 mm 278pp 21 b/w illus.
978-1-107-00342-2 Hardback £60.00
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Textbook
European Colonialism
since 1700
James Lehning
University of Utah
A history of European colonialism
from 1700 through the process of
decolonization – for the first time
bridging early modern Atlantic empires
and the later Asian and African empires.
Spanning the empires of Spain, Portugal,
Britain, France and the Netherlands, it
examines the interrelationship between
imperial nations and their imperial
possessions.
Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. The
European empires in the early eighteenth
century; 3. The restructuring of the Atlantic
empires; 4. The new empires in Oceania
and Asia; 5. Africa and the Middle East;
6. Imperial Europe in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries; 7. Decolonization and
postcolonial Europe.
New Approaches to European History
2013 228 x 152 mm 320pp
20 b/w illus. 5 maps
978-0-521-51870-3 Hardback c. £55.00
978-0-521-74171-2 Paperback c. £18.99
Publication August 2013
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