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Book Maritime Malabar and the Europeans  1500 1962

Download or read book Maritime Malabar and the Europeans 1500 1962 written by K. S. Mathew and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating historical account of various aspects of European contacts with maritime Malabar .

Book Lords of the Sea  The Ali Rajas of Cannanore and the Political Economy of Malabar  1663 1723

Download or read book Lords of the Sea The Ali Rajas of Cannanore and the Political Economy of Malabar 1663 1723 written by Binu John Mailaparambil and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the seventeenth century the political and ritual relationships between the various elite houses of the kingdom of Cannanore on the Malabar Coast were affected by the shifting patterns in the Indian Ocean maritime trade. This study shows how the Arackal Ali Rajas, the most prominent maritime merchants in early-modern Malabar, managed to fence off the attempts of the Dutch East India Company to gain control of the regional trade, and how they succeeded in maintaining their commercial network across the Indian Ocean intact.

Book Fort Cochin in Kerala  1750 1830

Download or read book Fort Cochin in Kerala 1750 1830 written by Anjana Singh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the early modern fortress town of Cochin in India, based on the rarely used VOC archival deposits in the Tamilnadu State Archives in Chennai (Madras), provides an intimate portrait of a Dutch urban community of East India Company servants and their dependents living within the larger social environment of the Malabar coast

Book Asia Inside Out

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Tagliacozzo
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2015-06-08
  • ISBN : 0674286340
  • Pages : 429 pages

Download or read book Asia Inside Out written by Eric Tagliacozzo and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asia Inside Out reveals the dynamic forces that have historically linked regions of the world’s largest continent, stretching from Japan and Korea to the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Middle East. Connected Places, the second installment in this pioneering three-volume survey, highlights the transregional flows of goods, ideas, and people across natural and political boundaries—sea routes, delta ecologies, and mountain passes, ports and oasis towns, imperial capitals and postmodern cities. It challenges the conventional idea that defines geopolitical regions as land-based, state-centered, and possessing linear histories. Exploring themes of maritime connections, mobile landscapes, and spatial movements, the authors examine significant sites of linkage and disjuncture from the early modern period to the present. Readers discover how eighteenth-century pirates shaped the interregional networks of Vietnam’s Tonkin Gulf, how Kashmiri merchants provided intelligence of remote Himalayan territories to competing empires, and how for centuries a vibrant trade in horses and elephants fueled the Indian Ocean economy. Other topics investigated include cultural formations in the Pearl River delta, global trade in Chittagong’s transformation, gendered homemaking among mobile Samurai families, border zones in Qing China and contemporary Burma, colonial spaces linking India and Mesopotamia, transnational marriages in Oman’s immigrant populations, new cultural spaces in Korean pop, and the unexpected adoption of the Latin script by ethnically Chinese Muslims in Central Asia. Connected Places shows the constant fluctuations over many centuries in the making of Asian territories and illustrates the confluence of factors in the historical construction of place and space.

Book Germany in the World  A Global History  1500 2000

Download or read book Germany in the World A Global History 1500 2000 written by David Blackbourn and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany. With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification—and revealing a national identity far more complicated than previously imagined. Blackbourn traces Germany’s evolution from the loosely bound Holy Roman Empire of 1500 to a sprawling colonial power to a twenty-first-century beacon of democracy. Viewed through a global lens, familiar landmarks of German history—the Reformation, the Revolution of 1848, the Nazi regime—are transformed, while others are unearthed and explored, as Blackbourn reveals Germany’s leading role in creating modern universities and its sinister involvement in slave-trade economies. A global history for a global age, Germany in the World is a bold and original account that upends the idea that a nation’s history should be written as though it took place entirely within that nation’s borders.

Book The Animal in Ottoman Egypt

Download or read book The Animal in Ottoman Egypt written by Alan Mikhail and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals in rural Egypt became enmeshed in social relationships and made possible many tasks otherwise impossible. Rather than focus on what animals represented or symbolized, Mikhail discusses their social and economic functions, as Ottoman Egypt cannot be understood without acknowledging animals as central shapers of the early modern world.

Book Coastal Histories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Yogesh Sharma
  • Publisher : Primus Books
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9380607008
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book Coastal Histories written by Yogesh Sharma and published by Primus Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of maritime and oceanic history comprises a large corpus and includes related thematic engagements such as the history of overseas exploration and expansion, navalmilitary history, shipping, port cities, the role of migrations and cross-cultural processes. This extensive field of enquiry also focuses upon the study of littoral societies or the coastal regions, in understanding the influence of the ocean upon these lands. The interface between the land and the sea, with its several ecological and topographical variations, has played an important role in determining human activity, the settlement patterns and material culture in the coastal regions, which taken together constitute huge masses of territories in all continents. The general pattern of existence and the rhythm of life in all these dissociated regions, however, had considerable commonality, due to the overwhelming impact of the two dominant elements-water and land-in shaping the destinies of its inhabitants. Coastal societies have their own particular notion of identity and ambience, which differentiates them from the extensive continental zones. It is in this context, that coastal territories and their histories constitute an interesting theme of enquiry. The present volume examines a number of themes pertaining to different coastal regions of India: coastal ecology, commercial crops, transmission of diseases, fortifications, port hierarchy, new port towns, vessels and boats, fishing communities, social life of women, etc. It should be of interest to students and scholars of maritime history of India.

Book Art  Trade  and Cultural Mediation in Asia  1600   1950

Download or read book Art Trade and Cultural Mediation in Asia 1600 1950 written by Raquel A. G. Reyes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Palgrave Pivot explores the social and cultural impact of global trade at a micro-level from around 1600 to 1950. Bringing together the collaborative skills of cultural, social, economic, and art historians, it examines how the diffusion of trade, goods and objects affected people’s everyday lives. The authors tell several stories: of the role played by a host of intermediaries – such as apothecaries, artisans and missionaries who facilitated the process; of objects such as Japanese export lacquer-ware and paintings; of how diverse artistic influences came to be expressed in colonial church architecture in the Philippines; of revolutionary changes wrought on quotidian tastes and preferences, as shown in the interior decoration of private homes in the Dutch East Indies; and of transformations in the smoking and drinking habits of Southeast Asians. The chapters consider the conditions from which emerged new forms of artistic production and transfer, fresh cultural interpretations, and expanded markets for goods, objects and images.

Book Staged Otherness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dagnosław Demski
  • Publisher : Central European University Press
  • Release : 2021-12-22
  • ISBN : 9633864402
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Staged Otherness written by Dagnosław Demski and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural phenomenon of exhibiting non-European people in front of the European audiences in the 19th and 20th century was concentrated in the metropolises in the western part of the continent. Nevertheless, traveling ethnic troupes and temporary exhibitions of non-European humans took place also in territories located to the east of the Oder river and Austria. The contributors to this edited volume present practices of ethnographic shows in Russia, Poland, Czechia, Slovenia, Hungary, Germany, Romania, and Austria and discuss the reactions of local audiences. The essays offer critical arguments to rethink narratives of cultural encounters in the context of ethnic shows. By demonstrating the many ways in which the western models and customs were reshaped, developed, and contested in Central and Eastern European contexts, the authors argue that the dominant way of characterizing these performances as “human zoos” is too narrow. The contributors had to tackle the difficult task of finding traces other than faint copies of official press releases by the tour organizers. The original source material was drawn from local archives, museums, and newspapers of the discussed period. A unique feature of the volume is the rich amount of images that complement every single case study of ethnic shows.

Book Artistic and Cultural Exchanges Between Europe and Asia  1400 1900

Download or read book Artistic and Cultural Exchanges Between Europe and Asia 1400 1900 written by Michael North and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, relations between Europe and Asia have been studied in a hegemonic perspective, with Europe as the dominant political and economic centre. This book focuses on cultural exchange between different European and Asian civilizations, with the r

Book Maritime India

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pius Malekandathil
  • Publisher : Primus Books
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9380607016
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Maritime India written by Pius Malekandathil and published by Primus Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses the various socio-economic and political processes that evolved over centuries in the vast coastal fringes of India and out of the circuits of the Indian Ocean, ultimately giving it the distinctive consciousness and identity of Maritime India. The book comments on a wide range of issues, including the nature of maritime trade of the Sassanids with India; the impact of maritime trade on the political processes of Goa; the impact of Portuguese commercial expansion on the traditional Muslim merchants of Kerala and the role of private traders in the structure and the functioning of Estado da India.

Book English East India Company and the Local Rulers in Kerala

Download or read book English East India Company and the Local Rulers in Kerala written by Leena More and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Deals With The Rise And Decline Of The Kingdoms Of Attingal And Travancore In Kerala On The Basis Of Hitherto Unused Records And Sources Found In India, England And France.

Book The Goa Bahia Intra colonial Relations 16 75 1825

Download or read book The Goa Bahia Intra colonial Relations 16 75 1825 written by Philomena Sequeira Antony and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book ICSSR Newsletter

Download or read book ICSSR Newsletter written by Indian Council of Social Science Research and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book European Naval and Maritime History  300 1500

Download or read book European Naval and Maritime History 300 1500 written by Archibald Ross Lewis and published by . This book was released on with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Portuguese  Indian Ocean  and European Bridgeheads  1500 1800

Download or read book The Portuguese Indian Ocean and European Bridgeheads 1500 1800 written by Pius Malekandathil and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.

Book Cross Cultural Trade in World History

Download or read book Cross Cultural Trade in World History written by Philip D. Curtin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-05-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trade between peoples of differinf cultures, from the ancient world to the commercial revolution.