Gebundenes Buch

Transregional Trade and Traders

Situating Gujarat in the Indian Ocean from Early Times to 1900

Herausgeber: Alpers, Edward A; Goswami, Chhaya

Beschreibung

This book demonstrates the central position of Gujarat in the historical trading economy of the Indian Ocean World. Over a period of two thousand years, Gujarati traders exchanged commodities with maritime merchants from Africa, Arabia, Southeast Asia, China, and Europe. The fifteen chapters in the book reflect this global history in sections organized under the headings of 'Historiography, Method, Sources' , 'Commodities', and 'Trading Networks andDiasporas'.

Autor

Edward A. Alpers is research professor at the Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Chhaya Goswami is head of the Department of History, S.K. Somaiya College, Mumbai, India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 145mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780199490684
• ISBN-10: 0199490686
• Artikelnr.: 56351185