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The lecture investigates the history of coffee in the longue durée, from its first emergence in the commercial networks of the Ottoman Empire to the world ...

Beyond chattel slavery, who really built the global plantation complex? This lecture takes a global, longue durée approach, challenging the assumption that ...

How did labor relations evolve in colonial Hispanic America, and what factors contributed to the increased coercion in the seventeenth century? Hypothesizing ...

On this occasion, our aim is to discuss three main points. The first is the conceptual distinction between indigenous slavery and servitude, since while the ...

What moral principles guided Pope Gregory the Great (590–604)'s policy and how did he integrate them into his role as supreme manager of the papal patrimonies ...

Old Goa developed as one of the major port cities of the Indian Ocean during the sixteenth century, as the Portuguese attempted to control maritime trade ...

How does a new digital humanities project, born from research on the voices of the enslaved in the French Atlantic world, offer insight? Set to launch in ...

This talk derives from Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy’s award-winning book, Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean (University of Illinois ...

What was the crucial and yet overlooked role that British women played in the Atlantic slave trade? While much focus has been on English men involved in the ...

How were the lives of indigenous children who worked as domestic servants in colonial Lima shaped by their roles in their masters' households? This talk ...