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Daniel Hershenzon. The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 304 pp. ISBN: 9780812250480. $55.00.

Studies is misplaced just as the use of “frontiers” to characterize emerging interests in world history can sound imperial in tone. Also, the title of Bayly’s interview and its listing on the contents page excludes the word “simply” from his actual quote, “I am not going to call myself simply a global historian” (93). Bayly insists that he has always been a historian of the local and the regional, arguments from which “can be employed simultaneously” with global history. The titles ought to reflect Bayly’s subtle provocation to world historians about the importance of the local. World history, Stolte and Schrikker remind us, is changing fast. Leiden is not an old boys’ club anymore, new analytical categories are emerging in the field, and digitisation of source material and online teaching flourishes apace. While David Armitage’s interview to Jaap Jacobs and Martine van Ittersum reveals the opportunities and challenges coalescing around expanding digital methods in history, Robert Ross’s confession to Alicia Schrikker and Jan Gewald that the landscape is still his favourite source should console the more adventurous among historians. Such diverse narratives make the collection hopeful, cautionary, inspiring, and humorous in equal measure.