Table of Contents
Contents: Introduction; European Impact in America and Africa: The social and economic stability of the Western Sudan in the Middle Ages, M. Malowist; The horse in 15th-century Senegambia, Ivana Elbl; Passive resistance: Hopi responses to Spanish contact and conquest, E. Charles Adams; Social climbers: changing patterns of mobility among the Indians of colonial Peru, Karen Spalding; Indian agriculture, changing subsistence patterns, and the environment on the southern Great Plains, Paul H.Carlson; The process of farming diffusion in the southwest and Great Basin, Joseph C. Winter; La traite Atlantique des esclaves et ses effets économiques et sociaux en Afrique: le cas du Galam, royaume de l’hinterland Sénégambien au dix-huitième siècle, Abdoulaye Bathily; Dahomey and the slave trade: reflections on the historiography of the rise of Dahomey, Robin Law; Forms and types of work, and the acculturation of the colonial Indian of Mesoamerica: some preliminary observations, Murdo J. MacLeod; L’acculturation des Espagnols dans le Mexique colonial: déchéance ou dynamisme culturel? Solange Alberro; European Impact in Asia: Cloth, clothes, and colonialism: India in the 19th century, Bernard S. Cohn; The coming of the Europeans, K.T. Achaya; Bounty from the New World, K.T. Achaya; The introduction of American food plants into China, Ping-ti Ho; From betel-chewing to tobacco-smoking in Indonesia, Anthony Reid; Opium smoking in Ch’ing China, Jonathan Spence; The structure of cities in southeast Asia, 15th to 17th centuries, Anthony Reid; Female roles in pre-colonial southeast Asia, Anthony Reid; Contentious tradition: the debate on Sati in colonial India, Lata Mani; Index.
