Historical landscapes of the modern world / Christopher R. DeCorse -- 1492 : a different kind of "discovery" / Matthew Johnson -- Indigenous Caribbean networks in a globalizing world / Corinne L. Hofman -- Rethinking colonial Maya peripherality : colonial frictions, salvaged val…
"Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world. But its current status has skewed our understanding of the economy before colonization. Rönnbäck reconstructs the living standards of the population at a time when the Atlantic slave trade brought money and men into the are…
"In this ground-breaking new book, leading native and non-native scholars present a fascinating view of American Indian tribal values and indigenous cultures. Long before Columbus, American Indians had trading routes all across the Americas. How did they maintain this extensive …
Heroes of the Chaco -- Imperial maneuvers -- Las nalgas of YPFB -- Gas hub lock-in -- Bulls and beauty queens -- Just a few lashes -- Requiem for the dead -- Gas work -- Quarrel over the excess. "BOLIVIA IN THE AGE OF GAS demonstrates how the push to nationalize natural gas in …
Innovative ways of working with Indigenous Australians are needed to improve their employment prospects, especially as many work in jobs that are most likely to be impacted by digitalisation and automation in the future. This report considers both quantitative and qualitative da…
"For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts focused on the causes and effects of natural resources mismanagement, commonly known as the "resource curse"--The paradoxical connection between oil wealth and economic busts (as in Venezuela) or, in a later twist, the link between …
