Healers and Empires in Global History : Healing as Hybrid and Contested Knowledge 9783030154912, 9783030154905

Western medicine as contested knowledge 9781526123572

Medicine has always been a significant tool of an empire. This book focuses on the issue of the contestation of knowledg

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Knowledge Alchemy: Models and Agency in Global Knowledge Governance 9781529214420

This book introduces the concept of ‘knowledge alchemy’ to capture the generic process of transforming mundane practices

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Hybrid healing: Old English remedies and medical texts 9781526158505

This book works from the premise that the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an equally diverse

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Turbulent Empires: A History of Global Capitalism since 1945 9780773554351

An examination of global politics, emphasizing American hegemony and the rise of Asian economies. An examination of gl

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Doctors and Healers 1509521895, 9781509521890

We think we know what healers do: they build on patients' irrational beliefs and treat them in a 'symbolic

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Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History 9780231511988

With essays on U.S. history ranging from the American Revolution to the dawn of the twenty-first century, Contested Demo

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Empires in World History: Commonality, Divergence and Contingency 981161539X, 9789811615399

This study focuses on Empires, from an economic historical perspective. In doing so, it relates current debates in inter

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Jesuits and Asian Goods in the Iberian Empires, 1580–1700 (Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History) 9819924634, 9789819924639

This book analyzes the exchange relations between the colonies of the Iberian Empires, starting from two cities ports, B

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Global biographies: Lived history as method 9781526161178

Global biographies offers a thorough historiographical intervention, a new set of biographical approaches to global hist

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The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization 0691190925, 9780691190921

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