Cross-Contextualization as Method

Coconut frontiers and ecological frictions in the Pacific World, c.1900–20: A multispecies history of capitalism

Cross-Contextualization as Method

How seventeenth-century Europeans, following Jesuit missionary Martino Martini, saw their continent as historically, environmentally, and culturally intertwined with China.The Tartar Moment focuses on...

Abstract. As the Cape of Good Hope was integrated into early modern colonial world-making projects, it came to be regarded as ‘the western part of the East

The Historical Journal - Sara Caputo, Bronwen Everill, Helen Pfeifer

Exploring the causes and consequences of the integration of the Cape of Good Hope into the East Indies, Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh’s research highlights how contingent geopolitical designations reshap...

This astrolabe was made by Muhammad ibn al-Ṣaffār in Córdoba in Al-Andalus (now Spain) during the period of Umayyad rule. It dates to the year 417 in the I

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In The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear Ho-fung Hung watches the West swing from Sinophilia to Sinophobia and back again.

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