In this wide-ranging account, Robert DuPlessis examines globally sourced textiles that by dramatically altering consumer behaviour, helped create new economies and societies in the early modern world. This deeply researched history of cloth and clothing offers new insights into trade patterns, consumer demand and sartorial cultures that emerged across the Atlantic world between...(展开全部)

"Science and Empire in the Atlantic World" is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific scientific field or single national context, this collection captures the multiplicity of practices, people, languages, a...(展开全部)

Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eighteenth century, epic scientific voyages were sponsored by European imperial powers to explore the natural riches of the New World, and uncover the botanical secrets of its people. Bioprospectors brought back medicines, luxuries, and sta...(展开全部)

Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life, yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the 18th century, epic scientific voyages were sponsored by European imperial powers to explore the natural riches of the New World and uncover the botanical secrets of its people. Bioprospectors brought back medicines, luxuries, and staples f...(展开全部)

The first sustained study of the vibrant links between domestic craft and British colonialism In the eighteenth century, women’s contributions to empire took fewer official forms than those collected in state archives. Their traces were recorded in material ways, through the ink they applied to paper or the artifacts they created with muslin, silk threads, feathers, and shells...(展开全部)

The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. "In the Shadow of Slavery" provides a startling new assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops slaves were forced to produce to the foods...(展开全部)

维姆·克罗斯特（Wim Klooster），生于荷兰的格罗宁根，美国克拉克大学历史与国际关系系主任，自2003年以来一直在该校任教。他的研究视角具有比较性，专注于研究15世纪至19世纪大西洋世界的历史、18世纪至19世纪大西洋革命时代的历史，以及荷兰建立海上贸易帝国的历史。著有《大西洋世界的革命》（Revolutions in the Atlantic World）一书。

维姆·克罗斯特（Wim Klooster），生于荷兰的格罗宁根，美国克拉克大学历史与国际关系系主任，自2003年以来一直在该校任教。他的研究视角具有比较性，专注于研究15世纪至19世纪大西洋世界的历史、18世纪至19世纪大西洋革命时代的历史，以及荷兰建立海上贸易帝国的历史。著有《大西洋世界的革命》（Revolutions in the Atlantic World）一书。

Timely reissue of the classic radical history of race and modernity In this groundbreaking work, Paul Gilroy proposes that the modern black experience can not be defined solely as African, American, Carribean or British alone, but can only be understand as a Black Atlantic culture that transcends ethnicity or nationality. This culture is thorough modern and, often, overlooked b...(展开全部)

【作者简介】保罗·吉尔罗伊（Paul Gilroy，1956— ），英国著名黑人理论家、英国国家学术院院士，国际人文社科领域重量级奖项霍尔贝格奖获得者。吉尔罗伊1986年在伯明翰大学当代文化研究中心（CCCS）取得博士学位，是斯图亚特·霍尔的得意门生，也被认为是霍尔之后最重要的种族 理论家之一。曾任耶鲁大学非裔美国人研究系系主任，现为伦敦大学学院教授、种族与种族主义研究中心主任。著有《大英帝国没有黑人》《阵营之间》《帝国之后》等。 【译者简介】沈若然，华东师范大学中文系博士后，复旦大学文学博士，主要从事西方文论研究。