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• Publisher : Manohar Publishers and Distributors
• File Size : 50,7 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 1995

Contributed articles presented at the second international symposium, held in Dec. 1991.

• Publisher : A&C Black
• File Size : 27,8 Mb
• Release Date : 02 August 2012

We know the tales of Columbus and Captain Cook, yet much earlier mariners made equally bold and world-changing voyages. In Beyond the Blue Horizon, archaeologist and historian Brian Fagan tackles

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 45,8 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 2024

"David Abulafia's new book guides readers along the world's greatest bodies of water to reveal their primary role in human history. The main protagonists are the three major oceans-the Atlantic,

• Publisher : Cornell University Press
• File Size : 26,9 Mb
• Release Date : 06 May 2015

Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Britain for commercial supremacy and a whaling

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 51,8 Mb
• Release Date : 13 February 2019

This volume investigates the emergence and spread of maritime commerce and interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World—the world’s first “global economy”—from a longue durée perspective. Spanning

• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• File Size : 25,8 Mb
• Release Date : 28 November 2022

This book is a multidisciplinary study of the Indian Ocean region, bringing together perspectives from history, defense and strategic studies, cultural and religious studies, and environmental studies. This collection examines

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 42,5 Mb
• Release Date : 02 September 2003

In this stimulating and authoritative overview, Michael Pearson reverses the traditional angle of maritime history and looks from the sea to its shores - its impact on the land through

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 41,6 Mb
• Release Date : 31 October 2013

The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and around its shores from the third millennium

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 52,6 Mb
• Release Date : 19 August 2008

This book assesses British colonialism in South Asia in a transnational light, with the Indian Ocean region as its ambit, and with a focus on ‘subaltern’ groups and actors. It

• Publisher : Pan Macmillan
• File Size : 28,7 Mb
• Release Date : 21 February 2024

An enthralling journey through 2,000 years of India’s steadfast relations with the seas. The Indian Ocean world’s significance in human history is impossible to dismiss. The 1,000-odd kilometres of