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... This extract, from the picaresque diary of an anonymous silver trader, vividly describes a journey with a mule train from the highlands to the coast, from La Paz to Lima. It depicts the vicissitudes of life on the road, such as fording rising rivers in the rainy season, the illness and death...

... Chapter 3, “Afro-Asian Adjacencies,” explores the racial figure of the Asian trader and Asian capitalism in colonial, apartheid, and postapartheid South Africa and across Indian Ocean geographies. Drawing on archival research, it examines the racialization of the present-day Chinese trader...

... trove of previously unavailable live concert recordings known among traders and collectors as the “Betty Boards” began to circulate among tape traders in the spring of 1987. The remarkable history of this batch of tapes—their production, provenance, rediscovery, and resurrection—reaffirmed...

... in the eighteenth century by exporting indigo from regions that would break away to become El Salvador; in the nineteenth century growers and traders turned to cochineal, a red dye earlier monopolized by Mixtecs in Oaxaca, Mexico. Never prospering in global trades before 1870, Guatemalans negotiated relations among...

... Asian settler colonialism sojourner Chapter 3, “Afro-Asian Adjacencies,” explores the racial figure of the Asian trader and Asian capitalism in colonial, apartheid, and postapartheid South Africa and across Indian Ocean geographies. Drawing on archival research, it examines the racialization...

... assigned day in and day out with no personal recognition from above. Plantation hands became liquid, one might say. Traders transported labor power over far greater distances than they had done for wood, the Caribbean’s closest contemporary approximation to a modern fuel. Cane cutters, in short, helped...

... away to become El Salvador; in the nineteenth century growers and traders turned to cochineal, a red dye earlier monopolized by Mixtecs in Oaxaca, Mexico. Never prospering in global trades before 1870, Guatemalans negotiated relations among Hispanic traders, landlords, and officials in the capital...

... This chapter examines the attempts by the Left Opposition around Leon Trotsky in 1927 to put forward a wholescale critique of the Stalinist bureaucracy and its political program, which was strengthening class forces like the small capitalist farmer, small capitalist traders, and the party...

... Chapter 3 chronicles how following the French military conquest of the island in 1895-96, officials appropriated key sites in the city, on which they laminated their presence and sought to legitimate colonial rule. The enduring stone structures of Indian and Antalaotra traders and the refusal...

... In addition to the Grateful Dead’s commercially released live albums, by the early 1970s, fans also had access to a rapidly growing body of unofficial live concert recordings that were being produced and traded within a growing community of tapers and tape traders. Appearing alongside other...

... and retail outlets flourished among tape traders, underpinning informal networks of distribution within and between music scenes. The traffic in re-recorded tapes both influenced new musicians and sustained the legacies of older ones, aiding crucially in processes of everyday canon-making at a time when many...

... of traders, Sakalava leaders, and ritual experts who shaped the city's built forms. It argues that competing groups harnessed architectural tactics—governance, refusal, and the assemblage of expertise—to open new political and economic possibilities in the emergent town. Critical to early Sakalava monarchal...

... the relationships between key protagonists of this history—Sakalava royal monarchs, highland Merina officials, Indian traders, Comorian migrants, and French colonizers—and provides a broad historical context for Mahajanga's founding and expansion. This chapter posits buildings as oft-overlooked, but crucial sites...