This particular volume of proceedings has a concentration of papers on Africa, South Asia, and the South Pacific. Contributors include Olive Patricia Dickason, James Pritchard, Peter Moogk, Keith R. Widder, Kolleen M. Cross, David Prochaska, William I. Shorrock, Margaret O. Mchane, Edward Peter Fitzgerald, Glenn Joseph Ames, William F.S. Miles, Jonathan A. Bone and Kim Munholland. Co-published with the French Colonial Historical Society.