Publications

Monographs

Frenz, Margret, Community, Memory, and Migration in a Globalizing World. The Goan Experience, c. 1890-1980 (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014).

Frenz, Margret, From Contact to Conquest. Transition to British Rule in Malabar, 1790-1805 (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003).

Frenz, Margret, Vom Herrscher zum Untertan. Spannungsverhältnis zwischen lokaler Herrschaftsstruktur und der Kolonialverwaltung in Malabar zu Beginn der britischen Herrschaft (1790-1805) (Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 2000).

Edited Volumes 

Belich, James, John Darwin, Margret Frenz, and Chris Wickham (eds), The Prospect of Global History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). Paperback edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).

Frenz, Margret (ed.), Global Medical Flows across Borders. Issues and Case Studies, special symposium, Global Public Health 14, 3 (2019), pp. 321-361.

Bradby, Hannah, Margret Frenz, and Stephanie Snow (eds), Mobilising Health: Personnel, Place, Technology, Knowledge, special issue Ethnicity & Health 21, 4 (2016).

Frenz, Margret and Georg Berkemer (eds), Sharing Sovereignty. The Little Kingdom in South Asia, rev. edn with new epilogue (New Delhi: Primus Books, 2015).

Berkemer, Georg and Margret Frenz (eds), Sharing Sovereignty. The Little Kingdom in South Asia (Berlin: Schwarz Verlag, 2003).

Articles in Refereed Journals 

Frenz, Margret, 'To Be or Not To Be … a Global Citizen: Three Doctors, Three Empires, and One Subcontinent', Modern Asian Studies 55, 4 (online 2020 DOI 10.1017/S0026749X20000256, print 2021), pp. 1-42.

Frenz, Margret, 'Complicating Decolonisation: Mozambican Indian Experiences in the Twentieth Century', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 47, 5 (online 2019 DOI: 10.1080/03086534.2019.1677344, print 2019), pp. 999-1020 .

Frenz, Margret, 'Introduction: Medical Tourism or Movement for Healthcare? Reflections on (Inter-)National Cross-Border Mobility ', Global Public Health (online 2018 DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2018.1515971, print 2019), pp. 321-325.

Frenz, Margret and Srinivasan Kannan, 'Seeking Health under Palm Trees: Ayurveda in Kerala', Global Public Health (online 2017 DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2017.1417458, print 2019), pp. 351-361.

Frenz, Margret, Hannah Bradby, and Stephanie Snow, ‘Migration and Danger: Ethnicity and Health’, Ethnicity & Health 21, 4 (2016), (online 2016 DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2016.1170414, print 2016), pp. 333-339.

Frenz, Margret, 'Transimperial Connections. East African Goan Perspectives on Goa 1961', Contemporary South Asia 22, 3 (online 2014 DOI: 10.1080/90584935.2014.930418, print 2014), pp. 240-254.

Frenz, Margret, ‘Swaraj for Kenya, 1949-1965. The Ambiguities of Transnational Politics’, Past & Present 218 (online 2013 DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gts039, print 2013), pp. 151-177.

Frenz, Margret, ‘Migration, Identity, and Postcolonial Change in Uganda. A Goan Perspective’, Immigrants and Minorities 31, 1 (online  2012,  DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2012.746864; print 2013), pp. 48-73.

Frenz, Margret, ‘Global Goans. Migration Movements and Identity in a Historical Perspective’, Lusotopie 15,1 (2008), pp. 183-202.

Frenz, Margret and Georg Berkemer, ‘Colleges and Kings. Higher Education under Direct and Indirect Rule’, Economic and Political Weekly XLI, 13 (2006), pp. 1261-1268.

Frenz, Margret and Ravi Ahuja, Katrin Bromber, Jan-Georg Deutsch, Patrick Krajewski and Brigitte Reinwald, ‘Neuere Literatur zum Indischen Ozean – eine kritische Würdigung’, Periplus. Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte 15 (2005), pp. 141-172.

Frenz, Margret and Georg Berkemer, ‘Little Kingdoms or Princely States? Trajectories towards a (Theoretical) Conception’, The Indian Historical Review 32, 3 (2005), pp. 104-121.

Frenz, Margret, ‘Pazhassi Raja between Independence and Submission - The Concept of Rule in Late Eighteenth Century Malabar’, Tapasam. A Quarterly Journal for Kerala Studies 1, 1 (2005), pp. 201-210.

Chapters in Refereed Edited Collections

Frenz, Margret, 'Colonial Segregation, Apartheid State, and Rainbow Nation. Negotiating Diversity in Twentieth-century South Africa', in Elisabeth Heijmans and Sophie Rose (eds), Diversity and Empires. Negotiating Plurality in European Imperial Projects from Early Modernity (London: Routledge, 2023), pp. 200-223.

Frenz, Margret, 'Complicating Decolonisation: Mozambican Indian Experiences in the Twentieth Century', in Fletcher, Robert, Benjamin Mountford and Simon Potter (eds), Connected Empires, Connected Worlds. Essays in Honour of John Darwin (London: Routledge, 2022), pp. 199-220.

Frenz, Margret, 'Virtual Relations. Little Kings in Malabar', in Kulke, Hermann and Bhairabi Prasad Sahu (eds), The Routledge Handbook of the State in Premodern India (London: Routledge, 2022), pp. 527-536.

Frenz, Margret and Katharina Ernst, ‘“Um sich die herrlichen Zeiten wieder vor Augen zu führen”: Kolonialer Machtanspruch und Stuttgarter Kolonialausstellung (1928)’, in Lutum-Lenger, Paula and Roland Müller (eds), Die vergessene Ausbeutung. Kolonialismus und der Südwesten (Stuttgart: Regionalkultur, 2021), pp. 159-194 & 222-228.

Frenz, Margret,  ‘Of Expectations and Aspirations: South Asian Perspectives on World War I, the World, and the Subcontinent, 1918-2018’, in Christoph Cornelißen and Arndt Weinrich (eds), Writing the Great War. The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present (Oxford: Berghahn, 2020), pp. 114-146.

Frenz, Margret, 'Doing Well but Also Doing Good? East African Indian Merchants and Their Charitable Work, c. 1850-1920', in Keller, Sara (ed.), Knowledge and the Indian Ocean (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2019), pp. 173-188. (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96839-1_10).

Frenz, Margret, 'From Zebra to Motorbike. Transnational Trajectories of South Asian Doctors in East Africa, ca. 1870-1970', in Monnais, Laurence and David Wright (eds), Doctors beyond Borders. The Transnational Migration of Physicians in the Twentieth Century (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016), pp. 142-165.

Frenz, Margret,‘“Malayalam on the Verandah.” Reading, Writing, and Education in Nineteenth Century South India’, in Rehman, Mujeebu (ed.), Randam Kerala Charitra Konferens Prabhandangal (Proceedings of Second Kerala History Conference), (Kottayam: Sahitya Pravarthaka, 2015), pp. 60-75.

Frenz, Margret, ‘Swaraj for Kenya, 1949-1965. The Ambiguities of Transnational Politics’, in Mann, Michael and Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger (eds), Beyond the Line. Cultural Narratives of the Southern Oceans (Berlin: Neofelis Verlag, 2014), pp. 122-151. [Reprint of my Past & Present article.] 

Frenz, Margret, ‘Settling Down. Goans in Zanzibar Stone Town in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’, in Cheyssial, Attila (ed.), Entretiens du Patrimoine de l’Océan Indien Bulletin (ENSAM: Actualité de la recherche), (Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2013), pp. 257-271.

Frenz, Margret, ‘Representing the Portuguese Empire: Goan Consuls in British East Africa c. 1910-1950’, in Eric Morier-Genoud & Michel Cahen (eds), Imperial Migrations: Colonial Communities and Diasporas in the Portuguese World (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 191-210.

Frenz, Margret, ‘Mahabali Returns to Kerala. Rituals of Sovereignty in Past and Present’, in Kulke, Hermann & Uwe Skoda (eds), State, Power, and Violence. Section IV: Ritual and the State in India (Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 2010), pp. 719-738.

Frenz, Margret, ‘Competing Ideas. The Quest for Knowledge in Early Twentieth Century Travancore’, in Kumar, Krishna and Joachim Oesterheld (eds), Education and Social Change in South Asia (New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2007), pp. 74-100.

Frenz, Margret, ‘“A Race of Monsters”. South India and the British Civilizing Mission in the Later Eighteenth Century’, in Fischer-Tiné, Harald and Michael Mann (eds), Colonialism as Civilizing Mission. Cultural Ideology in British India (London: Anthem, 2004), pp. 49-67, 300-305.

Frenz, Margret, ‘Virtual Relations. Little Kings in Malabar’, in Berkemer, Georg and Margret Frenz (eds), Sharing Sovereignty. The Little Kingdom in South Asia (Berlin: Schwarz Verlag, 2003), pp. 81-91.

Frenz, Margret and Georg Berkemer, ‘Introduction’, in Berkemer, Georg and Margret Frenz (eds), Sharing Sovereignty. The Little Kingdom in South Asia (Berlin: Schwarz Verlag, 2003), pp. 7-10.

Frenz, Margret and Georg Berkemer, ‘Hermann Kulke: An Appreciation of His Contribution to the Debate’, in Berkemer, Georg and Margret Frenz (eds), Sharing Sovereignty. The Little Kingdom in South Asia (Berlin: Schwarz Verlag, 2003), pp. 21-29.

Frenz, Margret, ‘“Clash of Sovereignty”. Britische und indigene Herrschaftskonzepte am Beispiel Südindien’, in Preisendanz, Karin and Dietmar Rothermund (eds), Südasien in der ‘Neuzeit’. Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 1500-2000 (Wien: Promedia 2002), pp. 29-46.

Frenz, Margret and Georg Berkemer, ‘A Bibliography of the Works of Dietmar Rothermund’, in Berkemer, Georg et al. (eds), Explorations in the History of South Asia. Essays in Honour of Dietmar Rothermund (New Delhi: Manohar 2001), pp. xiii-xxx.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Frenz, Margret, ‘Desai, Manilal Ambalal (1879–1926)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/102430, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/102430]. 

Frenz, Margret, ‘Jeevanjee, Alibhai Mulla (1856–1936)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/102431, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/102431]. 

Frenz, Margret, ‘Madhvani, Muljibhai Prabhudas (1894–1958)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/102432, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/102432]. 

Frenz, Margret, ‘Mustafa , Sophia (1922–2005)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/102433, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/102433]. 

Frenz, Margret, ‘Singh, Makhan (1913–1973)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/102434,  doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/102434]. 

Frenz, Margret, ‘Visram, Alidina (1851–1916)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/102435,  doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/102435].

Reviews 

on conferences, exhibitions and books in journals such as Contemporary South Asia, Australian Historical Studies, Social Sciences and Missions, Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, Periplus. Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte, Jahrbuch für europäische Überseegeschichte.