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Name: Prof William Gervase Clarence-smith
 
Present post: Professor of the Economic History of Asia and Africa
Subject areas: History
Languages used in research:

Dutch, Indonesian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian

Countries of research: SE Asia (general)
Current research projects:

Equids, elephants & bovids in SE Asia and its borderlands;

Sensory history of SE Asia, with special reference to betel chewing and hot beverages;

The Soci

Recent publications:

Clarence-Smith, W.G. 2006. Islam and the Abolition of Slavery. London: Hurst; New York: Oxford University Press. 293 pp.

Clarence-Smith, W.G. and Topik, S., eds. 2003. The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia and Latin America, 1500-1989, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 486 pp. [paperback edn 2006).

Clarence-Smith, W.G. 2004. Horse breeding in mainland Southeast Asia and its borderlands. In Peter Boomgaard and David Henley, eds., Smallholders and Stockbreeders; histories of foodcrop and livestock farming in Southeast Asia. Leiden: KITLV Press, pp. 189-210.

Clarence-Smith, W.G. 2004. Elephants, horses, and the coming of Islam to Northern Sumatra. Indonesia and the Malay World 32 (93): 271-84.

Clarence-Smith, W.G. 2004. Middle Eastern migrants in the Philippines: entrepreneurs and cultural brokers. Asian Journal of Social Science 32 (3): 425-57.