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 …

This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon—and one
driven solely by Western interests—by offering a compelling new perspective on global …

How do armies fight and what makes them victorious on the modern battlefield? In Divided
Armies, Jason Lyall challenges long-standing answers to this classic question by linking the …

Contemporay debates about Muslim slavery occur in a context of fierce polemics between
Islam and other belief systems. While Islamic groups had an ambivalent and generally …

Over the past forty years, countries in the Global North have increasingly restricted their
migration policies to reduce the arrival of migrants. As part of this, development aid has …

“A theoretically sophisticated reading of the mediation of social and spiritual relationships in
Fez.”—Gregory Starrett, University of North Carolina at Charlotte The sacred calls that …

Ait Khabbash women celebrate weddings with a fervor that matches the scorching heat of
the summer wedding season. They spend hours sitting with the bride in a tent constructed …

This article brings comparative race and ethnic studies, migration studies, and North/African
studies together to investigate how local-historical conceptions of blackness intersect with …

In the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated
northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations, yet relatively little is …