Details Loten's personal history and his professional career as a servant of the Dutch East Indies Company. It contains an inventory of his natural history draw

Mutiny on the Rising Sun is a deeply human history of smuggling that demonstrates how interconnected the future United States was with the wider world, how ille

This collection of seventeen essays takes its inspiration from the scholarly achievements of the Dutch historian Jan Lucassen. They reflect a central theme in h

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A history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, when millions of children were saved from smallpox.