1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791878203321

Autore

Green Nile

Titolo

Bombay Islam : the religious economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915 / / Nile Green [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

0-511-98667-X

1-107-21793-8

0-511-99447-8

1-283-01205-7

9786613012050

0-511-99224-6

0-511-99328-5

0-511-98947-4

0-511-98765-X

0-511-97516-3

0-511-99125-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 327 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

330.954/792031

Soggetti

Internal migrants - India - Mumbai - History

Muslims - India - Mumbai - History

Iranians - India - Mumbai - History

Economics - Religious aspects - Islam

Mumbai (India) Commerce History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction ---- 1. Missionaries and Reformists in the Market of Islams --- 2. Cosmopolitan Cults and the Economy of Miracles --- 3. The Enchantment of Industrial Communications --- 4. Exports for an Iranian Marketplace --- 5. The Making of a Neo-Isma'ilism --- 6. A Theology for the Mills and Dockyards --- 7. Bombay Islam in the Ocean's Southern City ---- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

As a thriving port city, nineteenth-century Bombay attracted migrants



from across India and beyond. Nile Green's Bombay Islam traces the ties between industrialization, imperialism and the production of religion to show how Muslim migration fueled demand for a wide range of religious suppliers, as Christian missionaries competed with Muslim religious entrepreneurs for a stake in the new market. Enabled by a colonial policy of non-intervention in religious affairs, and powered by steam travel and vernacular printing, Bombay's Islamic productions were exported as far as South Africa and Iran. Connecting histories of religion, labour and globalization, the book examines the role of ordinary people - mill hands and merchants - in shaping the demand that drove the market. By drawing on hagiographies, travelogues, doctrinal works, and poems in Persian, Urdu and Arabic, Bombay Islam unravels a vernacular modernity that saw people from across the Indian Ocean drawn into Bombay's industrial economy of enchantment.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791262303321

Autore

Hurst Steven

Titolo

The United States and Iraq since 1979 [[electronic resource] ] : hegemony, oil and war / / Steven Hurst

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2009

ISBN

0-7486-7210-9

1-282-62014-2

9786612620140

0-7486-3164-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Disciplina

327.730567

Soggetti

HISTORY / General

United States Foreign relations Iraq

Iraq Foreign relations United States

United States Foreign relations 1977-1981

United States Foreign relations 1981-1989

United States Foreign relations 1989-

Iraq Foreign relations 1979-1991

Iraq Foreign relations 1991-2003

Iraq Foreign relations 2003-

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. 236-258) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Map 1: The Middle East; Map 2: Iraq; Acronyms; Introduction; Chapter 1: Towards a New Relationship, 1979-1984; Chapter 2: From a Tilt to an Embrace, 1984-1989; Chapter 3: The Persian Gulf War, 1990-1991; Chapter 4: Dual Containment, 1992-2000; Chapter 5: A Second War for Hegemony, 2001-2003; Chapter 6: Things Fall Apart, 2003-2008; Conclusions: American Hegemony after the Iraq War; Bibliography; Untitled

Sommario/riassunto

This book represents the first comprehensive overview of the US-Iraqi relationship since 1979 and the first attempt to place the 2003 American invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq in that wider historical context.Using a modified version of World Systems Theory, the book places American policy toward Iraq at the centre of a number of dynamics, including America's dominant role in managing the world capitalist system, the fundamental importance of Persian Gulf oil to that system, and long-term change in the American political system.It argues that American policy towards Iraq since 1979 h