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  • Connecting the Indian Ocean World

    Across Sea and Land

    Edited by Radhika Seshan, Ryuto Shimada ...
    The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space. This book and its companion, Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World, explore these connections around the wider Indian Ocean world.The book examines the many overlapping linkages that existed from the early modern period and into the colonial era. It offers a clear understanding of the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World

    Across Sea and Land

    Edited by Radhika Seshan, Ryuto Shimada ...
    The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space. This book and its companion, Connecting the Indian Ocean World explore these connections around the wider Indian Ocean world.The book looks at the extensive range of maritime networks that criss-crossed pre-modern Asia and the Indian Ocean region connecting ports, peoples and cultures. It ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean

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    Before the age of Industrial Revolution, the great Asian civilisations - whether located in the Middle East, India, South-East Asia, or the Far East - constituted areas not only of high culture but also of advanced economic development. They were the First World of human societies. This 1985 book examines one of the driving forces of that historical period: the long chain of oceanic trade which ... Read more

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  • The Silk Roads

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  • The Indian Ocean

    by Michael Pearson ...
    Series series Seas in History
    In this stimulating and authoritative overview, Michael Pearson reverses the traditional angle of maritime history and looks from the sea to its shores - its impact on the land through trade, naval power, travel and scientific exploration. This vast ocean, both connecting and separating nations, has shaped many countries' cultures and ideologies through the movement of goods, people, ideas and ... Read more

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  • Premodern Travel in World History

    by Stephen Gosch, Peter Stearns ...
    Series series Themes in World History
    This book features some of the greatest travellers in human history – people who undertook long journeys to places they knew little or nothing about. From Roman tourists, to the establishment of the Silk Road; an epic trek round China and India in the seventh century, to Marco Polo and through to the first speculations on space travel, Premodern Travel in World History provides an overview of long ... Read more

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  • India in the World Economy

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    by Tirthankar Roy ...
    Series Book 10 - New Approaches to Asian History
    Cross-cultural exchange has characterized the economic life of India since antiquity. Its long coastline has afforded convenient access to Asia and Africa as well as trading partnerships formed in the exchange of commodities ranging from textiles to military technology and from opium to indigo. In a journey across two thousand years, this enthralling book, written by a leading South Asian ... Read more

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  • Global Connections: Volume 1, To 1500

    Politics, Exchange, and Social Life in World History

    by John Coatsworth, Juan Cole, Peter C. Perdue, Charles Tilly, Michael P. Hanagan, Louise Tilly ...
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  • Hooghly

    The Global History of a River

    by Robert Ivermee ...
    The Hooghly, a distributary of the Ganges flowing south to the Bay of Bengal, is now little known outside of India. Yet for centuries it was a river of truly global significance, attracting merchants, missionaries, mercenaries, statesmen, laborers and others from Europe, Asia and beyond. Hooghly seeks to restore the waterway to the heart of global history. Focusing in turn on the role of and ... Read more

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  • Gateways Of Asia

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    First Published in 1997. The dynamic role of port cities has been a major element in the thrust of modern port city literature since. In the process interactions between history and other disciplines, above all geography, economics and town planning resulted in a growing number of collaborative volumes. Indicative of the broad front, multi-disciplinary approach and challenging agenda of this wave ... Read more

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  • Monsoon

    The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power

    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
    On the world maps common in America, the Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region all but disappears. This convention reveals the geopolitical focus of the now-departed twentieth century, but in the twenty-first century that focus will fundamentally change. In this pivotal examination of the countries known as “Monsoon Asia”—which include India, Pakistan, China, ... Read more

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