"In [this book, the author] notebook in hand, traverses the Indian Ocean--from Madagascar through India and Bangladesh to Indonesia. It's an unpredictable journey on battered buses, bush taxis, auto-rickshaws, and crowded ferries. [The author] travels from the traffic snarls of …
In Monsoon Postcards, David H. Mould traverses the Indian Ocean from Madagascar through India and Bangladesh to Indonesia. He offers witty and insightful glimpses into countries linked by history, trade, migration, religion, and a colonial legacy, exploring how they confront an …
"Michael Naylor Pearson's work falls under the genre of global or world history and has tremendous impact on the study of the Indian Ocean world. He brought together different disciplines, and emphasized on the holistic view of the worlds of water. This book will serve as a guid…
"Michael Naylor Pearson's work falls under the genre of global or world history and has tremendous impact on the study of the Indian Ocean world. He brought together different disciplines, and emphasized on the holistic view of the worlds of water. This book will serve as a guid…
"Michael Naylor Pearson's work falls under the genre of global or world history and has tremendous impact on the study of the Indian Ocean world. He brought together different disciplines, and emphasized on the holistic view of the worlds of water. This book will serve as a guid…
"Islam under Empire offers new insights into the interwoven histories of Muslim communities of the central and southern latitudes of the Indian Ocean, travelling from east to west and back again from the 1770s to the end of the Second World War. It shows how hybrid bodies of peo…
An exploration of two centuries of interactions among Muslim subjects of empires and nation-states around the Indian Ocean world. The author traces interlinked lives and journeys, examining engagements with Western, Islamic, and pan-Asian imperial formations to consider the poss…
"Islam under Empire offers new insights into the interwoven histories of Muslim communities of the central and southern latitudes of the Indian Ocean, travelling from east to west and back again from the 1770s to the end of the Second World War. It shows how hybrid bodies of peo…
"Islam under Empire offers new insights into the interwoven histories of Muslim communities of the central and southern latitudes of the Indian Ocean, travelling from east to west and back again from the 1770s to the end of the Second World War. It shows how hybrid bodies of peo…
"Islam under Empire offers new insights into the interwoven histories of Muslim communities of the central and southern latitudes of the Indian Ocean, travelling from east to west and back again from the 1770s to the end of the Second World War. It shows how hybrid bodies of peo…
"This unprecedented study of nineteenth-century American merchant and whaling activity in the Indian Ocean shows how it shaped later US imperial incursions in the Pacific and Caribbean. Sailors' journals and other primary sources reveal American influence on the period's global …
"This unprecedented study of nineteenth-century American merchant and whaling activity in the Indian Ocean shows how it shaped later US imperial incursions in the Pacific and Caribbean. Sailors' journals and other primary sources reveal American influence on the period's global …
Introduction. "15000 miles from our native home" -- Early excursions -- Yankees in Mahajanga, Madagascar -- Whalers in Saint Augustin Bay -- Sailor tourism -- Provisioning islands and ecological impacts -- American illegal slaving -- Conclusion. Fourth of July and global rites o…
"This unprecedented study of nineteenth-century American merchant and whaling activity in the Indian Ocean shows how it shaped later US imperial incursions in the Pacific and Caribbean. Sailors' journals and other primary sources reveal American influence on the period's global …
"This unprecedented study of nineteenth-century American merchant and whaling activity in the Indian Ocean shows how it shaped later US imperial incursions in the Pacific and Caribbean. Sailors' journals and other primary sources reveal American influence on the period's global …
"Until Vasco da Gama discovered the sea-route to the East in 1497-9 almost nothing was known in the West of the exotic cultures and wealth of the Indian Ocean and its peoples: a 16-million-square-mile sea, bordered by civilizations more ancient than those of Greece and Rome, fed…
