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"On 28 September 1871 an anonymous letter in a local newspaper complained that slaves from North Africa were being landed in Malta for later transfer to the Levant. That letter led to a parliamentary question in the House of Commons and opened a can of worms for the British administration in Malta. Both the Foreign and Colonial Offices in London and the Malta governors had to seek a solution to the thorny problem. All efforts to stamp the practice, however, proved frustrating for the local administration; the only consequence being accusations of negligence or connivance from British consuls in the Levant. Furthermore, such incidents provided the French-born American consul in Tripoli with ammunition to attack the British authorities in the attempt to push the interests of his adoptive nation. Additionally, the book deals extensively with the plight of the slaves landed in Malta, and the interests and ambitions of their owners."--Publisher description

During the last thirty years or so, some historians have turned their attention to the human senses other than sight. This paper discusses briefly the noises and smells pervading Valletta during the final years of the 19th and the opening decades of the 20th century. In doing so, it stresses the importance of those who caused such nuisances and those who complained against them. It results that the growing sense of intolerance towards such nuisances was class-bound. The final part proposes to envision these nuisances as an element of what Ranajit Guha calls 'the politics of the people'. ; peer-reviewed

Refalo researches about the aspect of entrepreneurship on the island of Gozo during the years 1870 and 1914. As a case study, he studies the entrepreneurial movements of two Gozitans: Fedele Grima and Lorenzo Camenzuli. ; N/A