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Gender and Segregation: An Introduction Open
This introduction to the Special Issue explores the ways in which a gendered analysis illuminates histories of segregation. It argues three key points. First, it is essential to understand segregation from an intersectional perspective, on…
The Eastward Routes: Swedish Prisoners and Overlapping Regimes of Coercion in the Russian, Chinese and Dzungar Empires Open
The Eastward Routes: Swedish Prisoners and Overlapping Regimes of Coercion in the Russian, Chinese and Dzungar Empires When it comes to forced migration and long-distance slave trade, the bulk of the attention has been paid to the Atlantic…
Borders before Nations: Encounters in the Akan and Dzungar Borderlands, 1450–1750 Open
This article combines the methodological approaches and insights of two scholars working in distinct regions of the early modern world, namely West Africa and Central Asia, to consider border-making outside of Europe before the nation stat…
Beyond “Plato to NATO”. Navigating the Global Turn in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Open
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Enslaved in Dzungaria: what an eighteenth-century crocheting instructor can teach us about overland globalisation Open
This global microhistorical analysis of the Swede Brigitta Scherzenfeldt’s capture in Russia and her subsequent enslavement in the Dzungar khanate stresses actors and regions needed to nuance the history of globalisation. The early globali…
Global border making and securitisation in the early modern world: introduction Open
In the early modern period, borders could be mutable, imprecise, and represent far more than the lines on a map or delineation between sovereign states. In this essay, as well as introducing the eight articles that form the body of the spe…
Introduction. Gift and Tribute in Early Modern Diplomacy: Afro-Eurasian Perspectives Open
Gifts and tribute have become a mainstay of scholarship on early modern diplomacy, particularly in studies of intercultural contacts. While New Diplomatic History has shown that a much wider and more global range of actors participated in …
Scandinavia Open
In chapter 11, Lisa Hellman compares the Scandinavian overseas experience to the English case studies provided in the proceeding section. She argues that to consider the overseas corporation as global protagonists is part of a much-needed …