The fifth edition of the popular and highly acclaimed The Politics of the Police has been
completely revised, expanded, and updated to take in recent changes in the law, policy, and …

By the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late
nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had …

This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines
how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy …

This book traces the history and development of the port of Benguela, the third largest port of
slave embarkation on the coast of Africa, from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth …

The Yoruba: A New History is the first transdisciplinary study of the two-thousand-year
journey of the Yoruba people, from their origins in a small corner of the Niger-Benue …

O tráfico transatlântico de escravos africanos tomou no Brasil uma dimensão inédita no
Novo Mundo. Do século XVI até 1850, no período colonial e imperial, o país foi o maior …

From the origins of drinking to the use and abuse of alcohol in the present day, this global
historical study draws on approaches and research from biology, anthropology, sociology …

Using the city of Puebla de los Ángeles, the second-largest urban center in colonial Mexico
(viceroyalty of New Spain), Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva investigates Spaniards' imposition of …

Well into the early nineteenth century, Luanda, the administrative capital of Portuguese
Angola, was one of the most influential ports for the transatlantic slave trade. Between 1801 …

This article surveys anglophone scholarship in the history of medicine over the past decade
or so. It selectively identifies and critically evaluates key themes and trends in the field. It …