Cross currents and community networks : the history of the Indian Ocean world / edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray and Edward A. Alpers.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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xiv, 311 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

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    Summary note
    Contributed articles presented in a seminar organized by Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, India, in December 2003.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Studying the Indian Ocean world : problems and opportunities / Michael N. Pearson
    • Maritime communities : an overview / Kenneth McPherson
    • Crossing the seas : connecting maritime spaces in colonial India / Himanshu Prabha Ray
    • War, movement, and resettlement : the Paravas and the Jesuits in the sixteenth century / Mahesh Gopalan
    • Aceh between two worlds : an intersection of Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean / Anthony Reid
    • Littoral society in the Mozambique Channel / Edward A. Alpers
    • VOC Cape Town as an Indian Ocean port / Nigel Worden
    • Oman and Zanzibar : the historical roots of a global community / Erik Gilbert
    • The network of monetary exchange in the Indian Ocean trade, 1200-1700 / Najaf Haider
    • Money on the move : the rupee and the Indian Ocean region / Shailendra Bhandare
    • Non-metallic currencies of India in Indian Ocean trade and economies / Sanjay Garg
    • Merchants in transit : risk-sharing strategies in the Indian Ocean / Lakshmi Subramanian
    • Slavery and the trans-Indian Ocean World slave trade : a historical outline / Gwyn Campbell.
    ISBN
    • 9780195677058
    • 0195677056
    LCCN
    2007394114
    OCLC
    122929071
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