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Introduction: The Mediterranean, and the Port Cities in Modern Times
This chapter is intended to discuss first the three major approaches by Fernand Braudel, Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell, and David Abulafia to...
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Tracing the Footsteps and Influence of Xuanzang and Ibn Battuta
The celebrated French historian Fernand Braudel famously argued that geography determines history. When we speak of the Silk Road, we are thinking of...
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Die Gegenwart der Zukunft (Wegweiser)
Geschichte besteht nicht nur aus Kausal- und Ereignisketten, die früher im Mittelpunkt der geschichtswissenschaftlichen Aufmerksamkeit standen,...
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Introduction: Droughts, Floods, and Global Climatic Anomalies in the Indian Ocean World
This introductory chapter sets out the thematic and methodological approaches taken in the remainder of the book. It argues that droughts and floods,...
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Preface
Most reflections on the Mediterranean begin with an interrogation. In the unstable relationship between surface and depth, structure and process,...
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Unravelling Urban Technonatures
In this introductory chapter, we examine the historiographical development of ‘technonatures’ as an analytical lens to study the dynamic and mutable...
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Conclusion
This book examined the global circuits of Marxism in Calcutta, where “circuits” signified the simultaneous and nonhierarchical functioning of the...
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Afterword
I never thought I might be called upon to Mediterraneanize the British Isles. Yet that is what these concluding reflections on connectivity must in a...
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What, Where, and When Was Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century?
Without due attention to the spatial dimensions of socialist life, we risk overlooking one of its most critical aspects. Reimbuing the spatial into...
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Monopoly Claims and Moral Economy: Extralegal Practice in British Global and Local Trade c. 1660–1800
The power of the English East India Company (EIC) epitomizes aspects of state formation, with a monopoly to trade in Asia granted by the crown....
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The Eastern Adriatic and Privacy in Sixteenth-Century Italian Travel Narratives
This chapter aims to explore the representation of privacy in Italian travelogues from the sixteenth century in connection with the eastern shore of...
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Introduction: The Age of Empire, the Making of the Modern Nation, and the Advancement of Medical Sciences
This introductory essay focusses on the concepts of empire, colonies, and the nation, and how they intersect with medicine. Historiography in these...
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Wissen, Gewissen, Wissenschaft
Ein dünner, aber sehr wichtiger Faden in der schmalen Spur des Geschichtsgewissens, das sowohl auf der Objektebene des vergangenen Geschehens als...
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Environmental Crisis
Why does this work include a chapter on the environment? How does the environment relate to crisis, resilience, tradition, innovation, and the...
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The Second Slavery in the Americas
This chapter examines the era of “second slavery” from roughly 1800 to 1888. The second slavery in the Atlantic world refers to the renewed expansion...
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Introduction: The South Korean Workers’ Party, the April Third Massacre, and Understanding the Korean War as a Korean Civil War
The April Third Massacre was a matter of life or death for many innocent residents on Jeju Island, but unfortunately, few could expect to cling onto...
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NATO from the Balkans to Libya: Dynamics and Renewal of a Wilsonian Alliance
At the end of the Cold War the disappearance of NATO was not impossible, particularly according to the neorealist theory. At the same time, the EU...
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Historiography of Science and the Relationship Between History and the History of Science
This chapter establishes a theoretical reflection on the scientific field of the historiography of science as a fundamental element for a critical...
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Historiography of Science and the Relationship Between History and the History of Science
This chapter establishes a theoretical reflection on the scientific field of the historiography of science as a fundamental element for a critical...
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Climate, Weather and Pestilence in the Philippines Since the Sixteenth Century
The struggle for existence in the Philippines since the end of the sixteenth century has been precariously waged on two fronts—against inadequate...