Gregory Blue

Martin Bunton

Ralph C. Croizier

Criozier, Ralph

This collection fills the need for a resource that adequately conceptualizes the place of non-European histories in the larger narrative of world history. These essays were selected with special emphasis on their comparative outlook. The chapters range from the British Empire (India, Egypt, Palestine) to Indonesia, French colonialism (Brittany and Algeria), South Africa, Fiji, and Japanese imperialism. Within the chapters, key concepts such as gender, land and law, and regimes of knowledge are considered.

Colonialism and the Modern World

Timothy Brook

Associate Professor of History Timothy Brook

Jérôme Bourgon

In Beijing in 1904, multiple murderer Wang Weiqin became one of the last to suffer the extreme punishment known as lingchi, called by Western observers "death by a thousand cuts." This is the first book to explore the history, iconography, and legal contexts of Chinese tortures and executions from the 10th century until lingchi's abolition in 1905.

Death by a Thousand Cuts

Martin P. Bunton

Paper by Bruce Kercher traces the legal origins of the doctrine of terra nullius in early court cases in New South Wales.

Selected Studies

Catherine Jami

Peter Mark Engelfriet

Xu Guangqi was one of the first promoters of Western science in China, worked together with the Jesuit Matteo Ricci on translations of Western science, was one of the first Chinese converts, a high-ranking statesman, organizer of a major calendar reform, introduced Western weapons into the Chinese army, etc. etc. The current volume is a composite profile of this complex figure that is solidly anchored in Chinese (and Western) primary sources. A major achievement.

The Cross-Cultural Synthesis of Xu Guangqi (1562-1633)

Statecraft and Intellectual Renewal in Late Ming China

A collaborative volume aimed at correcting the view of China as a failed version of the West.

Gregory Blue

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