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Asianism And The Fall Of Empire - India'S Road To Freedom

by Mithi Mukherjee

~~28,76€~~ 25,88€ 10% OFF

 Offering a new global perspective on modern Indian history, Asianism and the Fall of Empire identifies the rise of Asianism in the early twentieth century as the origin and primary driving force of resistance movements that brought down the British Empire. Mithi Mukherjee ties together into a single sweeping narrative two contrasting, conflicting forms of anticolonialism: the emergence of nonviolent resistance movement under Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa and the militant movement culminating in the war on British India by the Indian National Army under Bose in alliance with the Japanese army. Asia emerges in this breakthrough retelling not as an inert geographical category, but instead as a singular agent of change in modern world history.
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Monsoon Voyagers - An Indian Ocean History

by Fahad Ahmad, Prof. Bishara e Prof. Fahad Ahmad Bishara

~~28,76€~~ 25,88€ 10% OFF

 Monsoon Voyagers follows the voyage of a single dhow, the Crooked, along with its captain and crew, from Kuwait to port cities around the Persian Gulf and Western Indian Ocean, from 1924 to 1925. Through his account of the voyage, Fahad Ahmad Bishara unpacks a much broader history of circulation and exchange across the Arabian Sea in the time of empire. From their offices in India, Arabia, and East Africa, Gulf merchants used the technologies of colonial capitalism—banks, steamships, railroads, telegraphs, and more—to remake their own regional bazaar economy. In the process, they remade the Gulf itself. Drawing on the Crooked's first-person logbooks, along with letters, notes, and business accounts from a range of port cities, Monsoon Voyagers narrates the still-untold connected histories of the Gulf and Indian Ocean. The Gulf's past, it suggests, played out across the sea as much as it did the land.
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A Sea Of Wealth - The Omani Empire And The Making Of An Oceanic Marketplace

by Nicholas P. Roberts

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 A Sea of Wealth is a sweeping retelling of the Omani position in the Indian Ocean. Here the reign of Oman’s longest-serving ruler, Saʿid bin Sultan, offers a keyhole through which we can peer to see the entangled histories of Arabia and the Gulf, South Asia, and East Africa in the Omani Empire. In centering this empire, Nicholas P. Roberts shows how Arabs, Africans, and Asians actively shaped the conditions of commercial engagement in the Western Indian Ocean, uniting the empire’s domains into a single oceanic marketplace in which Europeans and Americans had to accede if they wished to succeed. Drawing upon sources in three languages from four continents, A Sea of Wealth is a vivid narrative full of colorful characters that upturns many conventional understandings of our modern world.
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Global History Of Runaways - Workers, Mobility, And Capitalism, 1600-1850

~~39,75€~~ 31,80€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600-1850, workers of all kinds—slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors—repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. A Global History of Runaways, edited by Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, and Matthias van Rossum, compares and connects runaways in the British, Danish, Dutch, French, Mughal, Portuguese, and American empires. Together these essays show how capitalism required vast numbers of mobile workers who would build the foundations of a new economic order. At the same time, these laborers challenged that order—from the undermining of Danish colonization in the seventeenth century to the igniting of civil war in the United States in the nineteenth.
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Margins Of The Market - Trafficking And Capitalism Across The Arabian Sea

by Johan Mathew

~~33,13€~~ 26,50€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 What is the relationship between trafficking and free trade? Is trafficking the perfection or the perversion of free trade? Following the entangled history of trafficking and capitalism, the author explores how the Arabian Sea reveals the gaps that haunt political borders and undermine economic models.
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Berenike And The Ancient Maritime Spice Route

by Steven E. Sidebotham

~~45,05€~~ 36,04€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 The legendary overland silk road was not the only way to reach Asia for ancient travelers from the Mediterranean. During the Roman Empire’s heyday, equally important maritime routes reached from the Egyptian Red Sea across the Indian Ocean. The ancient city of Berenike, located approximately 500 miles south of today’s Suez Canal, was a significant port among these conduits. In this book, Steven E. Sidebotham, the archaeologist who excavated Berenike, uncovers the role the city played in the regional, local, and "global" economies during the eight centuries of its existence. Sidebotham analyzes many of the artifacts, botanical and faunal remains, and hundreds of the texts he and his team found in excavations, providing a profoundly intimate glimpse of the people who lived, worked, and died in this emporium between the classical Mediterranean world and Asia.
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From The Indian Ocean To The Mediterranean - The Global Trade Networks Of Armenian Merchants From New Julfa

by Sebouh Aslanian

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 Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire. Based in New Julfa, Isfahan, in what is now Iran, these merchants operated a network of commercial settlements that stretched from London and Amsterdam to Manila and Acapulco. The New Julfan Armenians were the only Eurasian community that was able to operate simultaneously and successfully in all the major empires of the early modern world—both land-based Asian empires and the emerging sea-borne empires—astonishingly without the benefits of an imperial network and state that accompanied and facilitated European mercantile expansion during the same period. This book brings to light for the first time the trans-imperial cosmopolitan world of the New Julfans. Among other topics, it explores the effects of long distance trade on the organization of community life, the ethos of trust and cooperation that existed among merchants, and the importance of information networks and communication in the operation of early modern mercantile communities.
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Domesticating The World - African Consumerism And The Genealogies Of Globalization

by Jeremy Prestholdt

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 Exploring complex webs of local consumer demands that affected patterns of exchange and production as far away as India and the United States, this book challenges presumptions that Africa's global relationships have always been dictated by outsiders.
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The Unending Frontier - An Environmental History Of The Early Modern World

by John F. Richards

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 This work identifies four broadly shared historical processes that speeded environmental change from roughly 1500 to 1800 CE: intensified human land use along settlement frontiers; biological invasions; commercial hunting of wildlife; and problems of energy scarcity.
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Imperial Connections - India In The Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920

by Thomas R. Metcalf

~~35,78€~~ 28,62€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Offers a view of the workings of the British Empire in the period when the India of the Raj stood at the center of a globalized system of trade, investment, and migration. This book examines law codes and administrative forms as they were shaped by Indian precedents.
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Servants Of The Dynasty - Palace Women In World History

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 Offering a comparative view of the women who lived, worked, and served in royal courts around the globe, this work opens a different perspective on the monarchies that have dominated much of human history. It investigates how women's roles differed and how their histories can illuminate the structures of power and societies in which they lived.
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The Collapse Of Communist Power In Poland - Strategic Misperceptions And Unanticipated Outcomes

by Jacqueline (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Hayden

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 Based on extensive original research, including interviews with key participants, this book investigates the sudden and unforeseen collapse of communist power in Poland in 1989. It sets out the sequence of events, and examines the strategies of the various political groupings prior to the partially free election of June 1989.
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Asianism And The Fall Of Empire - India'S Road To Freedom

by Mithi Mukherjee

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Asianism And The Fall Of Empire - India'S Road To Freedom

by Mithi Mukherjee

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A Sea Of Wealth - The Omani Empire And The Making Of An Oceanic Marketplace

by Nicholas P. Roberts

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Monsoon Voyagers - An Indian Ocean History

by Prof. Fahad Ahmad Bishara

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The Holy Vote - Inequality And Anxiety Among White Evangelicals

by Sarah Diefendorf

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Potosi - The Silver City That Changed The World

by Kris Lane

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From The Indian Ocean To The Mediterranean - The Global Trade Networks Of Armenian Merchants From New Julfa

by Sebouh Aslanian

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Monsoon Voyagers - An Indian Ocean History

by Prof. Fahad Ahmad Bishara

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A Sea Of Wealth - The Omani Empire And The Making Of An Oceanic Marketplace

by Nicholas P. Roberts

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Zanzibar Was A Country - Exile And Citizenship Between East Africa And The Gulf

by Nathaniel Mathews

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Zanzibar Was A Country - Exile And Citizenship Between East Africa And The Gulf

by Nathaniel Mathews

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A Global History Of Runaways - Workers, Mobility, And Capitalism, 1600â€“1850

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