Table of Contents
List of Maps ix
Introduction: Plague Paradoxes 1
Prologue: Globalising Europe 7
I Rethinking Globalisation and Divergence 7
II The Equine Revolution 12
III Super-Crops, Super-Crafts 15
IV Resetting Europe 19
Part I A Plague of Mysteries 27
1 The Black Death and the Plague Era 33
I The Black Death 33
II Bringing in the Dead 37
III Where Was the Black Death? 45
IV The Plague Era 47
2 The Origins and Dynamics of the Black Death 53
I Plague Prehistory 53
II Mongols and Marmots versus Gerbils and Camels 56
III Rats on Trial 63
IV Immunity and Resistance 73
V Plagues Endings 76
Part II Plague and Expansionism in Western Europe 79
3 A Golden Age? Economy and Society in the Early Plague Era 83
I A Plagued Economy 86
II A Golden Age for Whom? 94
III Mass Consumption? 98
4 Expansive Trades 106
I The Northern Hunt Trades 107
II Southern Trades: Sugar, Spice, Silk-and Slaves 113
5 Plague Revolutions? 123
I A Late Medieval Industrial Revolution? 123
II The Print Revolution and the Scribal Transition 129
III A Gunpowder Revolution? 132
6 Expansive Labour: Castas, Race Mothers, and Disposable Males 140
I Race and Reproduction 141
II Race Mothers and the Settler Divergence 149
III Disposable Males: European "Crew Culture" 158
7 States, Interstates, and the European Expansion Kit 170
I Warfare States 170
II Transnationalisms, Networks, and Shape-Shifters 174
III The Western European Expansion Kit 180
Part III Western Europe or West Eurasia? 189
8 Plague's Impact in the Muslim South 191
I The Mamluk Empire and the Maghreb 193
II Ottoman Heartlands: The Balkans and Anatolia 202
III Greater Persia 207
IV Shared Revolutions? 210
9 Early Modern Ming-Muslim Globalisation 220
I Early Modern Muslim Mercantile Expansion 222
II Chinese Outreach 229
III Joint Ventures in Southeast Asia 234
10 Entwined Empires: The Genoese Paradox and Iberian Expansion 241
I Genoese Imperialisms 243
II Genoese Plague Responses: The Origin of Modern Capitalism? 248
III Iberian Entanglements: Portugal 255
IV Iberian Entanglements: Spain 260
11 The Ottomans and the Great Diversion 268
I The Recovery State 268
II Ottoman Urban Colonisation and Slavery 275
III The Ottomans and Expansion beyond West Eurasia 282
12 The Dutch Puzzle and the Mobilisation of Eastern Europe 289
I Plague and Empire in Eastern Europe 292
II Plague, Institutions, and the Rise of Holland 300
III Dutch Expansion 308
IV Amsterdam's Empires 312
13 Muslim Colonial Empires 319
I The Moroccan Colonial Empire 320
II The Omani Colonial Empire 323
III The Mughals: A West Eurasian Colonial Empire? 327
14 Plague and Russian Expansion 341
I Novgorod: "Rome of the Waterways" 344
II Muscovite Expansion to 1500 348
III Hybridity and Empire on the Steppes 353
IV Trade, Settlement, and Hunting in Siberia, 1390-1800 358
V Russia, China, and Global Hunting 367
Part IV Expansion, Industry, and Empire 373
15 Empire? What Empire? European Expansion to 1800 377
I Africans 380
II The Americas 385
III India 392
IV China's World 399
V Entwined Empires 403
16 Plaguing Britain 408
I England's Plague Era 410
II Peculiar Institutions? 414
III London's Empires 419
IV Peripheral Peripheries? 424
V Transposing Lancashire and Bengal 434
Conclusion 441
Acknowledgments 449
Notes 451
Index 609