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The archives of global history I The inaccessibility of many traditional, paper archives during the pandemic is a prompt for us to think about archives in the most expansive sense. Non-paper archives were a recurring theme: built environment as archive, landscape as archive (in Tereza Valny's work), inaccessibility as archive. Reading the acknowledgements section of any book that might be categorized as global history, one comes across a long and impressive list of archives, frequently spanning multiple continents. Despite the growing number of publications and seminars seeking to define the field, the "archive of global history" has not been conceptualized or theorized to the same extent as, say, the archive of intellectual history, or the archive of African history. [Extracted from the article]

We learn in Chapter two that the first wave of Chinese doctors who immigrated to America in the 1850s were racialized and discredited by regular doctors for being Oriental. They were just as embedded in the American medical marketplace as other practitioners of irregular medicine, Venit-Shelton argues, yet they have been overlooked in historical treatments of unorthodox medicine in America. Herbs and Roots is thus a "corrective", to use Venit-Shelton's term, which chronicles the 200-year history of traditional Chinese doctors and their therapies in America. [Extracted from the article]