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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809142103321

Autore

Bose Sugata

Titolo

A hundred horizons : the Indian Ocean in the age of global empire / / Sugata Bose

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-674-02857-0

Edizione

[1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 333 p. ) : ill., 1 map ;

Disciplina

909/.09824083

Soggetti

Indian Ocean Region History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-313) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Space and Time on the Indian Ocean Rim -- 2. The Gulf between Precolonial and Colonial Empires -- 3. Flows of Capitalists, Laborers, and Commodities -- 4. Waging War for King and Country -- 5. Expatriate Patriots: Anticolonial Imagination and Action -- 6. Pilgrims' Progress under Colonial Rules -- 7. A Different Universalism? Oceanic Voyages of a Poet as Pilgrim -- Conclusion: The Indian Ocean Arena in the History of Globalization -- Notes -- Index