World/International History

This is the fifth collection of articles by Eliyahu Ashtor to be published by Variorum and focuses on the fundamental question of why, during the later Middle Ages, technology and industry declined, even collapsed, in the Muslim Levant, while simultaneously making enormous progress in the Christian ..

This volume brings together thirteen articles related to the trade and production of textiles in the Pacific region. Collectively, these articles bring out two central themes: the leading role of textiles in linking up the economies across the Pacific in the era before the 19th-century rise of steam..

Textiles: Production, Trade and Demand..

Textiles: Production, Trade and Demand..

This book explores one of the most dramatic features of the late medieval and early modern period: when voyagers from Western Europe led by Spain and Portugal set out across the world and set up links with Africa, Asia and the Americas...

This book explores one of the most dramatic features of the late medieval and early modern period: when voyagers from Western Europe led by Spain and Portugal set out across the world and set up links with Africa, Asia and the Americas...

This study of the Angloxxx;Dutch Wars (1652-54, 1665-67, 1672-74) sets them in their naval, political and economic contexts. Professor Jones compares the effectiveness of the governments under pressure; English with Dutch, Commonwealth with restored monarchy, Republican with Orangist; and the effect..

This study of the Angloxxx;Dutch Wars (1652-54, 1665-67, 1672-74) sets them in their naval, political and economic contexts. Professor Jones compares the effectiveness of the governments under pressure; English with Dutch, Commonwealth with restored monarchy, Republican with Orangist; and the effect..

This work explores the intersect of the worlds of Islam (including South and South East Asia, the Middle East and East Africa) and the European world-economy (particularly the seafaring Portugese, Dutch and British) on the eve of the modern world system...

The Arabs, Byzantium and Iran..

In The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History, Jeremy Black presents a compact yet comprehensive survey of slavery and its impact on the world, primarily centered on the Atlantic trade. Opening with a clear discussion of the problems of defining slavery, the book goes on to investigate the Atlantic s..

As the meeting point between Europe, colonial America, and Africa, the history of the Atlantic world is a constantly shifting arena, but one which has been a focus of huge and vibrant debate for many years. In over thirty chapters, all written by experts in the field, The Atlantic World takes up the..