Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Across the Green Sea

Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A history of two centuries of interactions among the areas bordering the western Indian Ocean, including India, Iran, and Africa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of University of Texas
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 162mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9781477328774
• ISBN-10: 1477328777
• Artikelnr.: 68920526

Autorenporträt

Sanjay Subrahmanyam is a Distinguished Professor of History and the Irving & Jean Stone Chair in Social Sciences at UCLA. He is the author of Europe’s India: Words, People, Empires, 1500–1800 and Empires Between Islam and Christianity, 1500–1800.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Preface
A Note on Transliteration
A Note on Currency and Tonnage
Introduction: Conceptual Issues in Connected Histories
1. An Epoch of Transitions, 1440–1520
2. The View from the Hijaz, 1500–1550
3. The Afro-Indian Axis
4. The View from Surat
A Conclusion: Toward Polyphonic Histories
Notes
Index