The Gulf in world history : Arabia at the global crossroads / / edited by Allen James Fromherz [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Fromherz Allen James
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 370 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 953
• Soggetto topico: HISTORY / Middle East / General
• Soggetto geografico: Persian Gulf Region History
• Classificazione: NK 4100
• Persona (resp. second.): FromherzAllen James
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2021).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Map of the Gulf -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction: World History in the Gulf as a Gulf in World History -- Part I Gulf Cosmopolitanism -- 2 The Cosmopolitan Figure as Ethical Exemplar: Notes from a Tenth-century Gulf Encyclopedia -- 3 The Gulf: A Cosmopolitan Mobile Society – Hormuz, 1475–1515 CE -- 4 From Jerusalem to the Karûn: What can Mandæan Geographies Tell Us? -- Part II The Gulf and the Indian Ocean -- 5 Merchant Communities and Cross-cultural Trade between Gujarat and the Gulf in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 6 The Banians of Muscat: A South Asian Merchant Community in Oman and the Gulf, c. 1500–1700 -- 7 Khaliji Hindustan: Towards a Diasporic History of Khalijis in South Asia from the 1780s to the 1960s -- Part III East Africans in the Khalij and the Khalij in East Africa -- 8 Africans and the Gulf: Between Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism -- 9 East Africa, the Global Gulf and the New Thalassology of the Indian Ocean -- Part IV Diversity and Change: Between Sky, Land and Sea -- 10 Astrology as a Node of Connectivity between the Pre-modern Mediterranean and Gulf -- 11 Ships of the Gulf: Shifting Names and Networks -- 12 The Role of Indian Ocean Trade Inland: The Buraimi Oasis -- Part V Recent Gulf Archaeology -- 13 Pearl Fishing and Globalisation: From the Neolithic to the Twentieth Century CE -- 14 An Archaeology of Glass and International Trade in the Gulf -- Part VI Heritage and Memory in the Gulf -- 15 From History to Heritage: The Arabian Incense Burner -- 16 Doha’s Msheireb Heritage House Museums: A Discussion of Memory, History and the Indian Ocean World -- 17 Omani Identity amid the Oil Crisis -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Presenting new evidence, new theoretical approaches, and new arguments, this volume aims to change understandings of the Gulf in the world.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Gulf in world history
• ISBN: 1-4744-3067-8; 1-4744-3068-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996552368403316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno