/ Graham Irwin -- The impact of firearms on Japanese warfare, 1543-98 / Delmer M. Brown -- Firearms and warfare on the Gold and Slave Coasts from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries / R.A. Kea -- Les origines coloniales da la civilisation atlantique : antecedents et types de structure / Charles Verlinden -- Technological change, slavery, and the slave trade / H.A. Gemery, and J.S. Hogendorn -- Technology and society : the impact of gold mining on the institution of slavery in Portuguese America / A.J.R. Russell-Wood -- The early sugar industry in Espanola / Mervyn Ratekin -- Colonial silver mining : Mexico and Peru / D.A. Brading and Harry E. Cross -- Evolution of the textile industry of Puebla, 1544-1845 / Jan Bazant -- Chinese silk manufacture in Jean-Baptiste du Halde, Description ... de la Chine (1735)) / Theodore Nicholas Foss -- Iron is iron 'til it is rust : trade and ecology in the decline of West African iron-smelting / Candice L. Goucher -- Decline or survival? : iron production in West Africa from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries / L.M. Pole -- From Calpixqui to Corregidor : appropriation of women's cotton textile production in early colonial Mexico / Margaret A. Villanueva -- The structure of the Indian textile industry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / K.N. Chaudhuri -- China and Western technology in the late eighteenth century / Joanna Waley-Cohen.