Professor William Gervase Clarence-Smith
MA(Cantab) DIPPOL(Paris) PhD (London)
Overview
Department of History
(Professor of the Economic History of Asia and Africa)
Centre of South East Asian Studies
(Member, Centre of South East Asian Studies)
SOAS Food Studies Centre
(Advisory Committee Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre)
History of Islam, sexuality, diasporas, slavery, stimulants, rubber, livestock and textiles, with special reference to Maritime South East AsiaContact Details
- Name:
- Professor William Gervase Clarence-Smith
- Email address:
- wc2@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- +44 (0)20 7898 4608
- Fax:
- +44 (0)20 7898 4699
- Address:
- School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 314
- Office Hours:
- On leave Sept 09-Aug 10
- Personal Website:
- http://www.journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=JGH
Interests / Disciplines
Commodities; diasporas; religions; labour; sexuality and the senses
Teaching
Students supervised
Courses Taught
Research
History of tropical beverages, masticatories, livestock, and textiles; Middle Eastern diasporas; religion, slavery and sexual norms. Special reference to South East Asia.
Expertise
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Available for
- Short Term Consultancy
- Long Term Consultancy
- TV
- Radio
- Press
- Briefings
- Special Study Programmes
Regional Expertise
- South East Asia
Country Expertise
- Indonesia
- Malaysia
- Philippines
Languages
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Spanish
Publications
Authored Books
William, Clarence-Smith (2006) Islam and the Abolition of Slavery. Hurst & Company.
Clarence-Smith, William (2000) Cocoa and Chocolate 1765-1914. Routledge.
Edited Books
Clarence-Smith, William and Topik, S., eds. (2003) The global coffee economy in Africa, Asia and Latin America, 1500-1989. Cambridge University Press.
Chapters in Books
Clarence-Smith, William (2005) 'El cacao en Chiapas durante el largo siglo XIX'.' In: Olivera, Mercedes and Palomo, María-Dolores, (eds.), Chiapas: de la independencia a la revolución. Publicaciones de la Casa Chata (Mexico), pp. 233-51.
Clarence-Smith, William (2005) 'Islam and the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the Indian Ocean'.' In: Campbell, Gwyn, (ed.), Abolition and its aftermath in the Indian Ocean Africa and Asia. Routledge (UK), pp. 137-49.
Clarence-Smith, William (2005) 'Lebanese and other Middle Eastern migrants in the Philippines'.' In: Usuki, Akira and F., Omar and Tomoko, &, (eds.), Population movement beyond the Middle East; migration diaspora and network. National Museum of Ethnology (Japan), pp. 115-43.
Clarence-Smith, William (2004) 'Middle-Eastern entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia, c. 1750-c.1940.' In: Baghdiantz, Ina and Harlaftis, Gelina and Ioanna, &, (eds.), Diaspora entrepreneurial networks, four centuries of history. Berg (UK), pp. 217-44.
Clarence-Smith, William (2004) 'Cape to Siberia; the Indian Ocean and China Sea trade in equids.' In: Killingray, David and Lincoln, Margarette and Rigby, Nigel, (eds.), Maritime empires; British imperial maritime trade in the nineteenth century. Boydell and Brewer (Woodbridge), pp. 48-67.
Clarence-Smith, William (2004) 'Horse Breeding in Mainland Southeast Asia and its Borderlands.' In: Boomgaard, P. and Henley, D., (eds.), Smallholders and Stockbreeders. History of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia. KITLV Press, pp. 189-210.
Clarence-Smith, William and STopik, (2003) 'Conclusion: new propositions and a research agenda.' In: W.G.Clarence-Smith, and S.Topik,, (eds.), The global coffee economy in Africa, Asia and Latin America, 1500-1989. UNSPECIFIED, pp. 385-410.
Clarence-Smith, William and STopik, (2003) 'Introduction: coffee and global development.' In: W.G.Clarence-Smith, and S.Topik,, (eds.), The global coffee economy in Africa, Asia and Latin America, 1500-1989. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-17.
Clarence-Smith, William (2003) 'The coffee crisis in Asia, Africa and the Pacific, 1870-1914.' In: W.G.Clarence-Smith, and S.Topik,, (eds.), The global coffee economy in Africa, Asian and Latin America, 1500-1989. UNSPECIFIED, pp. 100-119.
Clarence-Smith, William (2003) 'The Coffee Crisis in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific, 1870-1914.' In: Clarence-Smith, W.G. and Topik, S., (eds.), The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia and Latin America, 1500-1989. Cambridge University Press, pp. 100-119.
Clarence-Smith, William (2002) 'Horse trading: the economic role of Arabs in the Lesser Sunda Islands, c.1800 to c.1940.' In: de Jonge, Huub and Kaptein, Nico, (eds.), Transcending borders; Arabs, politics, trade and Islam in Southeast Asia. Leiden: KITLV Press, pp. 143-162.
Clarence-Smith, William (2002) 'The rise and fall of Hadhrami shipping in the Indian Ocean, c.1750 - c.1940.' In: Parkin, D and Barnes, R, (eds.), Ships and the development of maritime technology across the Indian Ocean. Routledge Curzon (London), pp. 227-258.
Clarence-Smith, William (2001) 'The spread of coffee cultivation in Asia, from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century.' In: Tuchscherer, Michel, (ed.), Le commerce du café avant l’ère des plantations coloniales. Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale (Cairo), pp. 371-84.
Clarence-Smith, William (2001) 'Indian and Arab entrepreneurs in eastern Africa, 1800-1914.' In: Bonin, H and Cahen, M, (eds.), Négoce blanc en Afrique Noire; l’évolution du commerce à longue distance en Afrique Noire, du 18e au 20e siècles. Société Française d’Histoire d’Outremer (Paris), pp. 335-49.
Clarence-Smith, William (2000) 'The Impact of 1898 on Spanish trade and investment in the Philippines.' In: Macdonald/, C, (ed.), Old ties and new solidarities: Studies on Philippine communities. Ateneo de Manila University Press (Manila), pp. 234-68.
Clarence-Smith, William (1997) 'The Rivaud-Hallet plantation group in the economic crises of the inter-war years.' In: Lanthier/H, P, (ed.), Private enterprises during economic crises: tactics and strategies. Legas (Ottawa), pp. 117-32.
Clarence-Smith, William (1997) 'Hadhramaut and the Hadhrami diaspora in the modern colonial era: an introductory survey [and] The economic role of the Hadhrami diaspora in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden [and] Hadhrami entrepreneurs in the Malay world c 1740-1940.' In: Freitag, Ulrike and Clarence-Smith, W. G., (eds.), Hadhrami traders scholars and statesmen in the Indian Ocean 1750s to 1960s. Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia; 57. E J Brill.
Articles
Clarence-Smith, William (2004) 'Middle Eastern Migrants in the Philippines: Entrepreneurs and Cultural Brokers.' Asian Journal of Social Science, 32 (3). pp. 425-57.
Clarence-Smith, William (2004) 'Elephants, horses, and the coming of Islam to Northern Sumatra.' Indonesia and the Malay World, 32, 93 . pp. 271-84.
