Abstract. This article traces the rise and collapse of religious toleration of non-Christian Chinese merchants in Spanish Manila between 1571 and 1755, off

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Abstract. Drawing on Ottoman official correspondence, an informer’s report, and palace-sponsored tracts and chronicles, this article challenges the widely-

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Abstract. In 1913, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet dispatched a lavish diplomatic gift to the viceroy of India. However, upon its arrival the colonial a

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Abstract. Between 1951–55, the US Bureau of Reclamation conducted research in Lebanon to plan a hydroelectric and irrigation scheme using Lebanon's largest

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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

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Abstract. In colonial Suriname, a society shaped by slavery and indenture, the infrastructure and technologies of energy arrived as extensions of a colonia

Abstract. The idea that there was a ratio of people of colour to white people that, if exceeded, would prompt a white backlash was a tenet of folk sociolog

Abstract. The idea that there was a ratio of people of colour to white people that, if exceeded, would prompt a white backlash was a tenet of folk sociolog

Abstract. It has long been recognized that the English workhouses of the Old Poor Law era (1601-1834) were important precursors to institutions of the mode

Abstract. Why did early modern households bring the polluting energy of fossil fuels into their homes? For a long time, peat and coal were considered infer

Abstract. In the early modern period, while slavery became firmly entrenched in the Atlantic’s sugar economies, Southeast Asia witnessed the rise of distin

Abstract. This article explores the practice of ‘reckoning’, a means of reciprocal accounting that becomes prominent in late-medieval England. Despite its

Abstract. It is a historiographical convention to view interwar debates over the protection of vulnerable populations through the prism of ‘minority rights

Abstract. Drawing on Ottoman official correspondence, an informer’s report, and palace-sponsored tracts and chronicles, this article challenges the widely-

Abstract. Intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews was conceptualized as a ‘problem’ by the Australian Jewish establishment after the Second World War. From

Abstract. Intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews was conceptualized as a ‘problem’ by the Australian Jewish establishment after the Second World War. From

Abstract. In 1913, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet dispatched a lavish diplomatic gift to the viceroy of India. However, upon its arrival the colonial a

Abstract. This article investigates the relationship between government liquidity, personal credit, and state practices in eighteenth-century Britain, draw

Abstract. This article examines what happened to the ‘abandoned land’ of Muslim refugees in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Romania after the end of Ottoman rule in

Abstract. Between 1951–55, the US Bureau of Reclamation conducted research in Lebanon to plan a hydroelectric and irrigation scheme using Lebanon's largest

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