History

Contents: Background -- The era of pacification, 1570-1630 -- The Tokugawa heyday, 1630-1710 -- Struggling to stand still, 1710-1790 -- The erosion of stability, 1790-1850 -- Epilogue: breaking up and breaking out, 1850-1870.

Contents: Law, Society, and Culture in China -- Preface -- Contents -- A Note on Conventions -- Introduction -- A Vision of Sexual Order -- The Evolution of Rape Law: -- Female Chastity and the -- Threat of the Outside Male -- The Problem of the Penetrated Male: -- Qing Sodomy Legislation and the -- Fixing of Male Gender -- Widows in the Qing Chastity Cult: -- The Nexus of Sex and Property -- in Law and in Women's Lives -- Sexual Behavior as Status Performance: -- The Regulation of Prostitution -- Before 1723 -- The Extension of Commoner Standards: -- Yongzheng Reforms and the -- Criminalization of Prostitution -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Basic Legislation Against Sex Offenses -- Qing Sodomy Legislation -- Forced Remarriage of Chaste Widows -- Lü Kun's ÏProhibitions -- Issued to -- Households" -- Dynasties and Reign Periods -- Reference Matter -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Contents: Introduction: science, colonialism and modernity -- Science under the company -- Western medicine in an Indian environment -- Technologies of the steam age -- Imperial science and the Indian scientific community -- Science, state and nation -- Conclusion -- Biographical notes -- Bibliographical essay -- Index.

Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Citizens of the State and Political Women -- 2. On the Borders of Nations: Sororal Transnational Territory -- 3. A Socialist God of Justice: Between Fundamentalism and the Secular Left -- 4. East Confronts West: What the Left Eye of Israel Does Not See -- 5. A Political Upheaval: Meanings of Peace and Coexistence -- 6. When Locals Meet the Global -- Conclusion: The Margins Illuminating Politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary of Hebrew Terms -- Index

Contents: List of illustrations -- Preface -- Illustrations credits -- Acknowledgments -- pt. 1. Matters of morality -- pt. 2. The financiers -- pt. 3. Outfitting a slaver -- pt. 4. Sailing south -- pt. 5. Cruising the African coast -- pt. 6. Whydah -- pt. 7. Assou -- pt. 8. Jakin -- pt. 9. Atlantic Islands -- pt. 10. The middle passage -- pt. 11. Martinique -- pt. 12. The return -- Afterword -- appendix A. Reconstructing the balance sheet of the Diligent -- appendix B. Abbreviations used in notes -- Notes -- Index.

Contents: Introducing Africa and its history -- Africa before the agricultural age, 16,000-9000 BCE -- Culture and technology in Africa, 9000-3500 BCE -- Diverging paths of history : Africa 3500-1000 BCE -- An age of commerce, an age of iron : Africa, 1000 BCE to 300 CE -- Southern, central, and eastern Africa : the middle centuries, 300-1450 -- Northeastern, West, and North Africa : the middle centuries, 300-1450 -- The early Atlantic age, 1450-1640 -- Africa in the era of the Atlantic slave trade, 1640-1800.

Contents:
1. By Way of Introduction -- 2. The Causes of Independence -- 3. The Late Colonial Revolts and Protests -- 4. The First Phase of the Independence Movements -- 5. The Second Phase of the Independence Movements -- 6. The Independence Leaders as Liberals -- 7. The Problems of Independence -- 8. Conclusion.

Contents: Introduction -- The founding of a new political system -- The economic and social dimensions -- Mexico in decline (1821-1855) -- Andean South America to midcentury : consolidation of independence -- The road to dictatorship in the Platine area -- The rise of the Brazilian monarchy (1822-1850) -- Latin America at midcentury : a quickening pace of change -- The heyday of liberal reform in Spanish America (1850-1880) : Mexico and Colombia -- The heyday of liberal reform in Spanish America (1850-1880) : Argentina, Chile, and some other cases -- The flowering and decline of the Brazilian Empire (1850-1885) -- The Caribbean vortex in the nineteenth century : Cuba and Central America -- The liberal legacy and the quest for development.