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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Writing World Histories for Our Times -- Part I. Publics and Practices -- 1. World Historians and the Future of Academic History: A Research Manifesto -- 2. Making Porous and Expansive Boundaries: Jerry Bentley, World History, and Global Publics -- 3. Teaching World History in a Swirl of Standards -- Part II. Identities and Encounters -- 4. Encounters within Europe: Travelers' Views of Slavery in Renaissance Iberia -- 5. The Sixteenth-Century World War and the Roots of the Modern World: A View from the Edge -- 6. Who Owns the Fish in the Sea? The Dukes of Medina Sidonia and Spain's Tuna Fisheries -- 7. Eating the World: The Iguana's Tale of Caribbean Ecology and Culinary History -- 8. Shaken or Stirred? Recreating Makgeolli for the Twenty-First Century -- Part III. Truth Claims and Enlightenment Shadows -- 9. Explanations of Species Extinction in Nineteenth-Century China and Europe -- 10. Shadows of Sovereignty: Legal Encounters and the Politics of Protection in the Atlantic World -- 11. The Promise of-and the Threats to-Historical Linguistics as a Complement of Bentleyan World History -- 12. Close Encounters of the Methodological Kind: Contending with Enlightenment Legacies in World History -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Lingua ferrum: soliloquies of smiths / Tom Joyce -- Heavy metal: iron in the universe / E. C. Krupp -- Ogun, the orisa whose fame is worldwide / Rowland Abiodun -- Introduction / Allen F. Roberts -- The place of iron in African cosmologies / Allen F. Roberts -- Supertransformers: iron smelting and gender / Candice Goucher -- Iron's empowering presence / Henry J. Drewal -- Interleaf A: Gelede mask honoring blacksmiths / Tom Joyce and Henry J. Drewal -- Potency conveyed with a hammer's blow / Tom Joyce -- Interleaf B: Blacksmiths onstage / Tom Joyce -- Precolonial currencies: iron and value, power, and prestige / Allen F. Roberts -- Blades: of hard work and honor / Allen F. Roberts -- Interleaf C: Shona blades for the ancestors / William J. Dewey -- Beauty that bites: creative virtuosity in African throwing knives / Patrick McNaughton -- Interleaf D: For whose eyes were they? Calligraphic blades of Mahdist Sudan / Allen F. Roberts -- Portfolio I: Currencies -- Portfolio II: Blades -- Ages of iron: origins of the blacksmith's art in Africa south of the Sahara / Shadreck Chirikure, William J. Dewey, and Scott MacEachern -- Transforming culture: West and Central African iron archaeology / Scott MacEachern -- Interleaf E: Ancient prestige works from the Upemba region of Central Africa / William J. Dewey --