Global economic crises and the use of foreign currency naturally found their reflections in early modern drama and literature

Positioning themselves in the middle path between the local sovereignty and the global world, South Indians' roles rose to political and economic advisers.

This was a territory into which they entered with the inexperience of newcomers attempting to forge a place by trial and error

Perhaps counterintuitively in imperial terms, Tangier’s prospects suffered from its unique institutional position.

For the English in Ottoman Tunis and Tripoli, Bayramı was a contradiction.

Reading Sanderson’s account anyone who has ever been stuck in a riotous house-share with horrible housemates, will soon start to feel sympathy