Isbn: 9789381574706 - subversive sovereigns across the seas indian ocean ports of trade from early historic times to lte colonialism [hardcover] [jan 01, 2017] kenneth r. hall rila mukherjee suchandra ghosh (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 289.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction/Rila Mukherjee. 2. Identity and spatiality in Indian Ocean port-of trade c. 1400-1800/Kenneth R. Hall. 2. The nature of maritime trade: evidence from coastal Andhra/K.P. Rao. 3. The port of Sanjan/Sindan in early medieval India: a study of its cosmopolitan Milieu/Suchandra Ghosh and Durbar Sharma. 4. Perceptions of coastal topographies: Malabar and its ports, c. 10th-14th centuries CE/Digvijay Kumar Singh. 5. International maritime based trade in the Thai Realm of Ayutthaya in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries: deer hide trade as an access point for re-evaluation/Ilicia J. Sprey. 6. Accidental ports: the Bengal delta in the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries/Rila Mukherjee. 7. Secondary ports as ports-of-call: A study of Rajapur in the seventeenth century/Radhika Seshan. 8. Health concerns, medical substances and exchange networks in early colonial settlements: exploring dimensions of the fledgling urban experience in medical literature (1700s to 1850s)/Nupur Dasgupta. 9. The raging river: establishing a nineteenth century port in Bengal/Shatarupa Bhattacharyya. 10. A tale of two ports: changing fortunes of Bushehr and Bandar Abbas in Qajar Persia/Kingshuk Chatterjee. 11. A patch of the orient in Asutralia: Broome on the Margin of the Indo-Pacific, 1883-1939/Joseph Christensen. 12. Identity and spatiality of extended Indian ocean ports of trade/Kenneth R. Hall. Index. This collective places ports-of trade across the Indian ocean within the wider framework of negotiations exchanges and circulations. It interrogates the port-of trade experience along the ocean from Bandar Abbas, Persia to Broome, Western Asutralia. With a temporal span ranging from the Early historic period of late capitalism, it privilieges ports-of trade from 1400 CE and their negotiations with capitalism and colonialism. Arguing for a different urban history of ports, the volume asks whether the port-of trade urban experience, and its spatiality and identity, was different from its inland counterparts.…