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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463307803321

Titolo

Reinterpreting Indian Ocean worlds [[electronic resource] ] : essays in honour of Kirti N. Chaudhuri / / edited by Stefan C.A. Halikowski Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., c2011

ISBN

1-283-43572-1

9786613435729

1-4438-3044-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (436 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SmithStefan Halikowski

ChaudhuriK. N

Disciplina

909.0965

Soggetti

Ethnohistory - Indian Ocean Region

Electronic books.

Indian Ocean Region History

Indian Ocean Region Civilization

Indian Ocean Region Commerce History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-380) and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; PREFACE; FOREWORD; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART II; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; PART III; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF KIRTI N. CHAUDHURI; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The Indian Ocean World was an idea borne out by researchers in economic history and trade in the 1980's in response to the compartmentalization of specific area studies within the wider rubric of Asian civilisations and culture. Prof. Kirti N. Chaudhuri's books Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company (1978) and then Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean (1985) figured amongst the forefront of this new movement in historical thinking, undertaking detailed historical analysis...