Oceans connect : reflections on water worlds across time and space / edited by Rila Mukherjee.

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"Oceans Connect: New Directions in Maritime Studies" (Conference) (2010 : University of Hyderabad) [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Delhi : Primus Books, 2013.
Description
xvi, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

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    Summary note
    Papers from the conference, "Oceans Connect : New Directions in Maritime Studies", held 31 January-3 February 2010 in Hyderabad.
    Notes
    "The book is the outcome of a conference 'Oceans Connect: New Directions in Maritime Studies' sponsored by the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata and held at the University of Hyderabad ... ": Acknowledgement.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    Contents
    • Part I: Marine worlds
    • Sea worlds: Pacific and south-east Asian history centered on the Philippines / Paul D'arcy
    • Chasing the many faces of a marine goddess across the eastern Indian Ocean / Rila Mukherjee
    • Bypassed oceans / Arvind S. Susarla
    • Part II: Maritime worlds
    • Pacific currents, maritime empires, and Russia's oceanic moment / Ryan Tucker Jones
    • Networks and 'national' communities in the first global hispanic Atlantic / Ana Crespo Solana
    • Narrating little stories about the Portuguese in the making of world history / J.B. Owens
    • Jumping frontiers, crossing barriers - transfers between oceans: a case study of the Portuguese overseas expansion, 1400-1800 / Amélia Polónia
    • The Portuguese in the Indian Ocean in the first global age: transoceanic exchanges, naval power, port organization and trade / Amândo Jorge Morais Barros
    • Part III: Maritime world as space: Europe and the Indian Ocean
    • A global dream: the Indian Ocean in the European trading horizon / Antoni Picazo Muntaner
    • Oceans connect/fragment: a global view of the eastern ocean / Rila Mukherjee
    • Part IV: Formal and informal networks in maritime worlds: the Indian Ocean
    • Thai trade in the Indian Ocean: the contexts of pre-colonial Bay of Bengal port management / Lipi Ghosh
    • Human networks in the pre-modern world: rumours of piracy in Surat / Radhika Seshan
    • 'A profitable and advantageous commerce': European private trade in the western Indian Ocean / Ruby Maloni
    • Connecting seas: Indian textiles in the Indian Ocean trade in the early modern period / Om Prakash.
    ISBN
    • 9789380607405
    • 9380607407
    LCCN
    2013332614
    OCLC
    821025069
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