This dissertation investigates the material and symbolic production of Unani (Greco-Arab) medicine in contemporary India. Unani is a system of medicine derived from the humoral theory of Hippocrates (460–370 B.C.), and makes use of plant, animal and mineral-based drugs to cure c…
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Francisco Delicado and Juan and Alfonso de Valdés, Spanish humanists who departed from their country of birth and experienced the dark days prior to the sack of Rome in 1527 and its aftermath, engaged and instructed their readers through the dialogue form. This dissertation expl…
A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern worldIn the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes--an area stretching from East …
Virtuous Waters is a pathbreaking and innovative study of bathing, drinking and other everyday engagements with a wide range of waters across five centuries in Mexico. Casey Walsh uses political ecology to bring together an analysis of shifting scientific, religious and politica…
This study is timely because several investments are planned for container terminals in Sub-Saharan Africa. From a public policy perspective, disentangling the reasons behind cargo delays in ports is crucial to understanding:a) whether projects by the World Bank and other donors…
What is a global market? To explore this question, the dissertation examines how the world cotton market is produced and maintained. It presents a detailed analysis of the arrangements, calculative devices, power relations, and forces on which the production and circulation of c…
Monograph on the role of Japan in economic growth and economic structure in the colony of Korea from 1910 to 1940 - covers agricultural production and industrial production, measurement of growth rates, changes in the occupational structure as well as analysis of the manufacturi…