Professor of the Economic History of Asia and Africa
Member
Academic Staff, Centre of South East Asian Studies
Food Studies Centre
Advisory Committee Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre
Centre for Iranian Studies
Member
Member
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Commodities; diasporas; religions; labour; sexuality and the senses
Previous PhD Students
Syed Muhd Aljunied Khairudin, 'The Aftermath Of The Maria Hertora Riots In Colonial Singapore (1950-1953)', 2008
Maureen De Silva, 'Javanese Indentured Labour In British North Borneo, 1914 - 1932', 2009
Chiara Formichi, 'Kartosuwiryo's Role In The Creation Of The Islamic State Of Indonesia (Negara Ismal Indonesia), 1927 - 1949', 2009
Natasha Pairaudeau, 'Indians as French Citizens in Colonial Cochinchina, 1858-1940', 2009
Vu Hong Lien Warder, 'Mongol Invasions In Southeast Asia And Their Impact On Relations Between Dainiet And Champa (1226-1326)', 2009
Jessica Dionne, 'Malaria Workers in Southern Mozambique: State Employees in the Transition from Late Colonialism to Independence', 2011
Wan Faizah Bt Wan Yusoff, 'Malay Responses To The Promotion Of Western Medicine, With Particular Reference To Women And Child Healthcare In The Federated Malay States,', 2011
Erich Trenton De Wald, 'Vietnamese tourism in late-colonial central Vietnam, 1917-1945', 2012
Sina Machander, 'Penang's Malays and the Shaping of Colonial Rule, 1800-1832', 2012
Research interests
History of tropical beverages, masticatories, livestock, and textiles; Middle Eastern diasporas; religion, slavery and sexual norms. Special reference to South East Asia.
The industrialization of the developing world, and its impact on labour relations, 1840s to 1940s
Clarence-Smith, William (2018). In: Hoofmeester, Karin, (eds.) and De Zwart, Pim, (eds.), Colonialism, institutional change, and shifts in global labour relations. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp 29-65
Migrantes del sur de Asia en Filipinas a lo largo del siglo XIX
Clarence-Smith, William (2017). In: Elizalde, María Dolores, (eds.) and Huets de Lemps, Xavier, (eds.), Filipinas, siglo XIX: coexistencia e interacción entre comunidades en el imperio español. Madrid: Ediciones Polifemo, pp 363-392
Chocolate consumption from the sixteenth century to the great chocolate boom
Clarence-Smith, William (2016). In: Squicciarini, Mara P., (eds.) and Swinnen, Johan, (eds.), The Economics of Chocolate. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 43-70
Sephardic Jews from Morocco in the lusophone world, 1774-1975
Clarence-Smith, William (2016). In: Alves Conde, Manuel Sílvio, (eds.), Vaz do Rego Machado, Margarida, (eds.) and Serpa Silva, Susanna, (eds.), Percursos da história: estudos in memoriam de Fátima Sequeira Dias. Ponta Delgada (Azores): Nova Gráfica, pp 195-208
Middle Eastern diasporas in Portugal and the Portuguese empire, c. 1750-1975
Clarence-Smith, William (2015). In: Batou, Jean, (eds.), Beauvois, Frédérique, (eds.), David, Thomas, (eds.), Humbert, Mathieu, (eds.) and Lutzelschwab, Claude, (eds.), Deux mondes, une planète/ Two worlds, one planet: mélanges offerts à Bouda Etemad/ essays in honor of Bouda Etemad. Lausanne: Éditions d’en Bas, pp 199-209
Breeding and power in Southeast Asia: horses, mules and donkeys in the longue durée
Clarence-Smith, William (2015). In: Henley, David, (eds.) and Schulte Nordholt, Henk, (eds.), Environment, trade and society in Southeast Asia: a longue durée perspective. Leiden: Brill, pp 32-45
Middle Eastern states and the Philippines under early American rule, 1898-1919
Clarence-Smith, William (2015). In: Peacock, Andrew C. S., (eds.) and Teh Gallop, Annabel, (eds.), From Anatolia to Aceh: Ottomans, Turks and Southeast Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 199-219
Africa’s “battle for rubber” in the Second World War
Clarence-Smith, William (2015). In: Byfield, Judith A., (eds.), Brown, Carolyn A., (eds.), Parsons, Timothy, (eds.) and Sikainga, Ahmad A., (eds.), Africa and World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 166-182
The Textile Industry of Eastern Africa in the Longue Durée
Clarence-Smith, William (2014). In: Akyeampong, Emmanuel K., (eds.), Bates, Robert H., (eds.), Nunn, Nathan, (eds.) and Robinson, James, (eds.), Africa's Development in Historical Perspective. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, pp 264-294
Wajih al-Kilani, shaykh al Islam of the Philippines and notable of Nazareth, 1913-1916
Clarence-Smith, William (2013). In: Yazbak, Mahmoud, (eds.) and Sharif, Sharif, (eds.), Nazareth history and cultural heritage: proceedings of the 2nd international conference, Nazareth, July 2 - 5, 2012. Nazareth: Nazareth Municipality, pp 172-192
Rubber cultivation in Indonesia and the Congo from the 1910s to the 1950s: divergent paths
Clarence-Smith, William (2013). In: Frankema, Ewout, (eds.) and Buelens, Frans, (eds.), Colonial exploitation and economic development: the Belgian Congo and the Netherlands Indies compared. London: Routledge, pp 193-210
Debt and the coercion of labour in the Islamic legal tradition
Clarence-Smith, William (2013). In: Campbell, Gwyn, (eds.) and Stanziani, Alessandro, (eds.), Bonded labour and debt in the Indian Ocean World. London: Pickering and Chatto, pp 21-30
The historical spread of Trypanosoma evansi (surra) in camels: a factor in the weakening of Islam?
Clarence-Smith, William (2013). In: Emery, Ed, (ed.), Selected papers from the first international conference ‘Camel cultures: historical traditions, present threats and future prospects’. London: RN Books, pp 87-94
Islamic abolitionism in the western Indian Ocean from c. 1800
Clarence-Smith, William (2013). In: Harms, Robert, (eds.), Freamon, Bernard K., (eds.) and Blight, David W., (eds.), Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp 81-97
The expansion of cotton textile production in the western Indian Ocean, c1500-c1850
Clarence-Smith, William (2012). In: Smith, Stefan Halikowski, (ed.), Reinterpreting Indian Ocean worlds: essays in honour of Kirti N. Chaudhuri. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp 84-106
Same-sex relations and transgender identities in Islamic Southeast Asia from the fifteenth century
Clarence-Smith, William (2012). In: Reyes, Raquel A. G., (eds.) and Clarence-Smith, William, (eds.), Sexual diversity in Asia, c. 600-1950. London: Routledge, pp 67-85
Female circumcision in Southeast Asia since the coming of Islam
Clarence-Smith, William (2012). In: Raghavan, Chitra, (eds.) and Levine, James P., (eds.), Self-determination and women’s rights in Muslim societies. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, pp 124-146
The Hadhrami sada and the evolution of an Islamic religious international, c.1750s to 1930s
Clarence-Smith, William (2012). In: Green, Abigail, (eds.) and Viaene, Vincent, (eds.), Religious internationals in the modern world: globalization and faith communities since 1750. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 233-251
Clarence-Smith, William and Eltis, David (2011). In: Eltis, David, (eds.) and Engerman, Stanley, (eds.), The Cambridge world history of slavery, volume 3, AD 1420-AD 1804. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 132-159
The redemption of child slaves by Christian missionaries in Central Africa, 1878-1914
Clarence-Smith, William (2011). In: Campbell, Gwyn, (eds.), Miers, Suzanne, (eds.) and Miller, Joseph C., (eds.), Child slaves in the modern world. Athens, OH.: Ohio University Press, pp 173-190
La SOCFIN (Groupe Rivaud) entre l’Axe et les Alliés
Clarence-Smith, William (2010). In: Bonin, Hubert, (eds.), Bouneau, Christophe, (eds.) and Joly, Hervé, (eds.), Les enterprises et l’outre-mer français pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. Pessac: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme d’Aquitaine, pp 99-113
L’esclavage et son abolition dans l’histoire de l’Islam
Clarence-Smith, William (2010). In: Stanziani, Alessandro, (ed.), Le travail contraint en Asie et en Europe, XVIIe-XXe siècles. Paris: Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, pp 93-116
Clarence-Smith, William (2010). In: Robinson, Francis, (ed.), The new Cambridge history of Islam, volume 5: The Islamic world in the age of Western dominance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 240-268
Diseases of equids in Southeast Asia, c.1800-c.1945: apocalypse or progress?
Clarence-Smith, William (2010). In: Brown, Karen, (eds.) and Gilfoyle, Daniel, (eds.), Healing the herds: disease, livestock economies, and the globalization of veterinary medicine. Athens: Ohio University Press, pp 129-145
The British “official mind” and nineteenth-century Islamic debates over the abolition of slavery
Clarence-Smith, William (2009). In: Hamilton, Keith, (eds.) and Salmon, Patrick, (eds.), Slavery, diplomacy and empire: Britain and the suppression of the slave trade, 1807-1975. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, pp 125-142
Entrepreneurial strategies of Hadhrami Arabs in Southeast Asia, c. 1750s-1950s
Clarence-Smith, William (2009). In: Abushouk, Ahmed I., (eds.) and Ibrahim, Hassan A., (eds.), The Hadhrami diaspora in Southeast Asia: identity maintenance or assimilation?. Leiden: Brill, pp 135-158
The production of cotton textiles in early modern South-East Asia
Clarence-Smith, William (2009). In: Riello, Giorgio, (eds.) and Parthasarathi, Prasannan, (eds.), The spinning world: a global history of cotton textiles, 1200-1850. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 127-142
The global consumption of hot beverages, c. 1500 to c. 1900
Clarence-Smith, William (2008). In: Nützenadel, Alexander, (eds.) and Trentmann, Frank, (eds.), Food and globalization: consumption, markets and politics in the modern world. Oxford: Berg, pp 37-55
Église, nation et esclavage: Angola et Mozambique portugais, 1878-1913
Clarence-Smith, William (2008). In: Pétré-Grenouilleau, Olivier, (ed.), Abolir l’esclavage: un réformisme à l’épreuve, France, Portugal, Suisse, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, pp 149-167
Southeast Asia and Southern Africa in the maritime horse trade of the Indian Ocean, c. 1800-1914
Clarence-Smith, William (2007). In: Bankoff, Greg, (eds.) and Swart, Sandra, (eds.), Breeds of empire; the 'invention' of the horse in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa, 1500-1950. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, pp 21-32
Scientific and technological interchanges between the Islamic world and Europe, c. 1450-c. 1800
Clarence-Smith, William (2007). In: Cavaciocchi, Simonetta, (ed.), Relazioni economiche tra Europa e mondo islamico, secc. XIII-XVIII [Europe's economic relations with the Islamic world, 13th-18th centuries], vol. 2. Prato: Le Monnier, pp 719-737
Clarence-Smith, William (2005). In: Olivera, Mercedes, (eds.) and Palomo, María-Dolores, (eds.), Chiapas: de la independencia a la revolución. México, D.F: Publicaciones de la Casa Chata (Mexico), pp 233-51
Lebanese and other Middle Eastern migrants in the Philippines
Clarence-Smith, William (2005). In: Usuki, Akira, (eds.), Bajunid, Omar F., (eds.) and Yamagishi, Tomoko, (eds.), Population movement beyond the Middle East; migration diaspora and network. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, pp 115-143
Islam and the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the Indian Ocean
Clarence-Smith, William (2005). In: Campbell, Gwyn, (ed.), Abolition and its aftermath in the Indian Ocean Africa and Asia. London: Routledge, pp 137-49
Horse Breeding in Mainland Southeast Asia and its Borderlands
Clarence-Smith, William (2004). In: Boomgaard, Peter, (eds.) and Henley, David, (eds.), Smallholders and Stockbreeders. History of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia.. Leiden: KITLV Press, pp 189-210
Clarence-Smith, William and Topik, Steven (2003). In: Clarence-Smith, William, (eds.) and Topik, Steven, (eds.), The global coffee economy in Africa, Asia and Latin America, 1500-1989. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 1-17
The coffee crisis in Asia, Africa and the Pacific, 1870-1914
Clarence-Smith, William (2003). In: Clarence-Smith, William, (eds.) and Topik, Steven, (eds.), The global coffee economy in Africa, Asian and Latin America, 1500-1989. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 100-119
Conclusion: new propositions and a research agenda
Clarence-Smith, William and Topik, Steven (2003). In: Clarence-Smith, William, (eds.) and Topik, Steven, (eds.), The global coffee economy in Africa, Asia and Latin America, 1500-1989. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 385-410
The rise and fall of Hadhrami shipping in the Indian Ocean, c.1750 - c.1940
Clarence-Smith, William (2002). In: Parkin, David, (eds.) and Barnes, Ruth, (eds.), Ships and the development of maritime technology on the Indian Ocean. London: Routledge Curzon, pp 227-258
Horse trading: the economic role of Arabs in the Lesser Sunda Islands, c.1800 to c.1940
Clarence-Smith, William (2002). In: de Jonge, Huub, (eds.) and Kaptein, Nico, (eds.), Transcending borders; Arabs, politics, trade and Islam in Southeast Asia. Leiden: KITLV Press, pp 143-162
Indian and Arab entrepreneurs in eastern Africa, 1800-1914
Clarence-Smith, William (2001). In: Bonin, Hubert, (eds.) and Cahen, M, (eds.), Négoce blanc en Afrique Noire; l’évolution du commerce à longue distance en Afrique Noire, du 18e au 20e siècles. Saint-Denis: Société Française d’Histoire d’Outremer, pp 335-49
The spread of coffee cultivation in Asia, from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century
Clarence-Smith, William (2001). In: Tuchscherer, Michel, (ed.), Le commerce du café avant l’ère des plantations coloniales. Cairo: Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale (Cairo), pp 371-84
The Impact of 1898 on Spanish trade and investment in the Philippines
Clarence-Smith, William (2000). In: Macdonald, Charles J-H, (ed.), Old ties and new solidarities: Studies on Philippine communities. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, pp 234-68
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
Clarence-Smith, William (1997). In: Freitag, Ulrike, (eds.) and Clarence-Smith, William, (eds.), Hadhrami traders scholars and statesmen in the Indian Ocean 1750s to 1960s. Leiden: E J Brill
