The essays in this volume explore crucial intellectual and cultural exchanges between Asia and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Examining the

In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and made sense of one another. Richly

Truly global study of creolised plant knowledge in eighteenth-century Mauritius, exploring how people came together to create new practices.

Presents a comprehensive study of the central Asian region of Xinjiang's history and people from antiquity to the present. Discusses Xinjiang's rich environment