As new technologies emerge, they demand reinscriptions of the ordinary. Some cope with these changes by ascribing an animacy or liveliness to the technologies. In this respect, they solicit a reappraisal of matter's agency, ...

Based on a completely reconstructed archive of Persian, Hindi and Marathi documents, Nandini Chatterjee provides a unique micro-history of a family of landlords in Malwa, central India, who flourished in the region from ...

This article studies the legal strategies of the Castilian community in the Low Countries during the fifteenth and sixteenth century, using the case study as a proxy for debates on how merchants managed mercantile conflict ...