William G Clarence-Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3663249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William G Clarence-Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | William G |
| FAMILY NAME | Clarence-Smith |
| SIGNATURE | CLARENCE-SMITH W G |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Nurfadzilah Yahaya. Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia
Journal Article Nurfadzilah Yahaya. Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia. Get access Nurfadzilah Yahaya. Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. xi, 251. Paper $29.95. William G. Clarence-Smith William G. Clarence-Smith SOAS University of London, England Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Equids across the Indian Ocean, c . 1800–1918
Equids were the main animals transported across the Indian Ocean in this period. Prior to the spread of the internal combustion engine, warfare, agricultural estates, and urban transport drove demand. British India, cut off from overland sources by the Afghans, was the main market, followed by islands with large plantation sectors, notably Mauritius, Réunion, and Java. Australia and South America were the chief suppliers, with few coming from the…
Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History, ed. Matthew S. Gordon and Kathryn A. Hain
Beverly Lemire. Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures: The Material World Remade, c. 1500–1820
In Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures: The Material World Remade, c. 1500–1820, Beverley Lemire refuses to take the easy path through the most abundant sources for the period, which make relatively little mention of ordinary people or of the non-European world. Instead, she magisterially demonstrates that historians can recover patterns of early modern popular consumption around the world, as a result of some energetic diggi…
Mules in the Indian Ocean World: Breeding and Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780s to 1918
Elephants in Mongol History: From Military Obstacles to Symbols of Buddhist Power
Jihad in West Africa during the age of revolutions
Held’s History of Sumbawa: An Annotated Translation
Hans Hagerdal has edited and translated a Dutch history of the island of Sumbawa, a book left unfinished when its author, Gerrit Jan Held, died suddenly in 1955. Hagerdal has updated the text by ad
Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa: From Honor to Respectability By Elisabeth McMahon
The word ‘Islamic’ appears prominently in the title of this book, and yet Islam is scantily addressed in the text itself, which came out of a PhD thesis submitted in 2005. Chapter 4 is the only one where Islam makes a substantial appearance. Even then, major books on Islam in East Africa are not cited, such as those by J. Spencer Trimingham. The author’s field of study is Pemba, the sister island of Unguja in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous province o…
Amalia Ribi Forclaz. Humanitarian Imperialism: The Politics of Anti-Slavery Activism, 1880–1940
Authors often adopt titles that do not accurately reflect the content of their book, and this is a case in point. Humanitarian Imperialism: The Politics of Anti-Slavery Activism, 1880–1940 emerges from an Oxford Ph.D. thesis with almost exactly the same title, albeit restricted to the interwar years. Any reader wishing to find out about the development of abolitionism in non-Western societies will find nothing here, and Amalia Ribi Forclaz primar…
Africa's “Battle for Rubber” in the Second World War
Africa accounted for only a little over 1 percent of the global output natural rubber when the Second World War broke out. Production had fallen drastically from the early 1910s, when Africa produced about 13 percent of the world's rubber. Most of this came from wild plants, but Africans had planted rubber during the great boom that ended in 1913, often “encouraged” by officials. In wetter areas, they usually grew indigenous Funtumia elastica, or…
The Textile Industry of Eastern Africa in the Longue Durée
Introduction Historians are divided over the issue of the role of textiles in the economic development of eastern Africa, defined here as stretching from the Sudan to South Africa. Ravi Palat and Immanuel Wallerstein claim that India “deindustrialized” its Indian Ocean periphery by exploiting advanced textile techniques and cheap labor (Palat and Wallerstein 1999, 36–7). Similarly, John Mack and Pedro Machado contend that Indian imports fatally u…
The Battle for Rubber in the Second World War
The Battle for Rubber in the Second World War: Cooperation and Resistance
As part of a broader study, John Tully has recently tackled the social history of rubber in the Second World War, at a time when control of this commodity assumed urgent strategic significance, due to the mechanisation of the world s armed forces.1 This is a welcome development, but Tully s story leaves many crucial gaps. Moreover, his narrative pits grasping and greedy elites against a combative and heroic workforce, allowing for few or no shade…
Sexual Diversity in Asia, c. 600 - 1950
Non-reproductive sex practices in Asia have historically been a source of fascination, prurient or otherwise, for Westerners, who being either Catholic or Protestant, were often struck by what they perceived as the widespread promiscuity and licentiousness of native inhabitants. Graphic descriptions, and pious denunciations, of sodomy, bestiality, transvestitism, and incest, abound in Western travel narratives, missionary accounts, and ethnograph…
White Servitude
Despite marked geographical and temporal differences across the Western Hemisphere, white servitude remained a distinct and significant phenomenon to the end of the early modern period. The area is defined broadly to include the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and the specific cases of Russia and Eastern Europe are covered in greater detail in other chapters in this volume. White servitude was present to some degree throughout this…
As if Silent and Absent: Bonds of Enslavement in the Islamic Middle East
Elephants, horses, and the coming of Islam to Northern Sumatra
Although there are as yet no specific histories of either elephants or horses in Southeast Asia, references to these animals crop up frequently, and a few general texts illuminate the outlines of t
Hadhrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750-1960s
Hadhramaut and the Hadhrami Diaspora in the Modern Colonial Era: An Introductory Survey
The Economic Role of the Hadhrami Diaspora in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, 1820s to 1930s
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Hadhramaut and the Hadhrami Diaspora in the Modern Colonial Era: An Introductory Survey
The Economic Role of the Hadhrami Diaspora in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, 1820s to 1930s
Hadhrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750-1960s
Elephants, horses, and the coming of Islam to Northern Sumatra
Although there are as yet no specific histories of either elephants or horses in Southeast Asia, references to these animals crop up frequently, and a few general texts illuminate the outlines of t
As if Silent and Absent: Bonds of Enslavement in the Islamic Middle East
White Servitude
Despite marked geographical and temporal differences across the Western Hemisphere, white servitude remained a distinct and significant phenomenon to the end of the early modern period. The area is defined broadly to include the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and the specific cases of Russia and Eastern Europe are covered in greater detail in other chapters in this volume. White servitude was present to some degree throughout this…
Sexual Diversity in Asia, c. 600 - 1950
Non-reproductive sex practices in Asia have historically been a source of fascination, prurient or otherwise, for Westerners, who being either Catholic or Protestant, were often struck by what they perceived as the widespread promiscuity and licentiousness of native inhabitants. Graphic descriptions, and pious denunciations, of sodomy, bestiality, transvestitism, and incest, abound in Western travel narratives, missionary accounts, and ethnograph…
The Battle for Rubber in the Second World War
The Battle for Rubber in the Second World War: Cooperation and Resistance
As part of a broader study, John Tully has recently tackled the social history of rubber in the Second World War, at a time when control of this commodity assumed urgent strategic significance, due to the mechanisation of the world s armed forces.1 This is a welcome development, but Tully s story leaves many crucial gaps. Moreover, his narrative pits grasping and greedy elites against a combative and heroic workforce, allowing for few or no shade…
The Textile Industry of Eastern Africa in the Longue Durée
Introduction Historians are divided over the issue of the role of textiles in the economic development of eastern Africa, defined here as stretching from the Sudan to South Africa. Ravi Palat and Immanuel Wallerstein claim that India “deindustrialized” its Indian Ocean periphery by exploiting advanced textile techniques and cheap labor (Palat and Wallerstein 1999, 36–7). Similarly, John Mack and Pedro Machado contend that Indian imports fatally u…
Africa's “Battle for Rubber” in the Second World War
Africa accounted for only a little over 1 percent of the global output natural rubber when the Second World War broke out. Production had fallen drastically from the early 1910s, when Africa produced about 13 percent of the world's rubber. Most of this came from wild plants, but Africans had planted rubber during the great boom that ended in 1913, often “encouraged” by officials. In wetter areas, they usually grew indigenous Funtumia elastica, or…
Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa: From Honor to Respectability By Elisabeth McMahon
The word ‘Islamic’ appears prominently in the title of this book, and yet Islam is scantily addressed in the text itself, which came out of a PhD thesis submitted in 2005. Chapter 4 is the only one where Islam makes a substantial appearance. Even then, major books on Islam in East Africa are not cited, such as those by J. Spencer Trimingham. The author’s field of study is Pemba, the sister island of Unguja in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous province o…
Amalia Ribi Forclaz. Humanitarian Imperialism: The Politics of Anti-Slavery Activism, 1880–1940
Authors often adopt titles that do not accurately reflect the content of their book, and this is a case in point. Humanitarian Imperialism: The Politics of Anti-Slavery Activism, 1880–1940 emerges from an Oxford Ph.D. thesis with almost exactly the same title, albeit restricted to the interwar years. Any reader wishing to find out about the development of abolitionism in non-Western societies will find nothing here, and Amalia Ribi Forclaz primar…
Held’s History of Sumbawa: An Annotated Translation
Hans Hagerdal has edited and translated a Dutch history of the island of Sumbawa, a book left unfinished when its author, Gerrit Jan Held, died suddenly in 1955. Hagerdal has updated the text by ad
Mules in the Indian Ocean World: Breeding and Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780s to 1918
Elephants in Mongol History: From Military Obstacles to Symbols of Buddhist Power
Jihad in West Africa during the age of revolutions
Equids across the Indian Ocean, c . 1800–1918
Equids were the main animals transported across the Indian Ocean in this period. Prior to the spread of the internal combustion engine, warfare, agricultural estates, and urban transport drove demand. British India, cut off from overland sources by the Afghans, was the main market, followed by islands with large plantation sectors, notably Mauritius, Réunion, and Java. Australia and South America were the chief suppliers, with few coming from the…
Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History, ed. Matthew S. Gordon and Kathryn A. Hain
Beverly Lemire. Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures: The Material World Remade, c. 1500–1820
In Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures: The Material World Remade, c. 1500–1820, Beverley Lemire refuses to take the easy path through the most abundant sources for the period, which make relatively little mention of ordinary people or of the non-European world. Instead, she magisterially demonstrates that historians can recover patterns of early modern popular consumption around the world, as a result of some energetic diggi…
Nurfadzilah Yahaya. Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia
Journal Article Nurfadzilah Yahaya. Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia. Get access Nurfadzilah Yahaya. Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. xi, 251. Paper $29.95. William G. Clarence-Smith William G. Clarence-Smith SOAS University of London, England Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
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