Vanguards of globalization : port-cities from the classical to the modern / edited by Rila Mukherjee.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Delhi : Primus Books, 2014.
Description
xvi, 425 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Editor
Series
Issues in history. [More in this series]
Summary note
"Looks at the historical evolution of port-cirites from emporion to gateway and interrogates their nature over time. This volume studies specific port-cities such as Barbarikon, Chaul, Porto Novo, Madras, Nagasaki, and Sitangkai, and more generally the ports around the Erythaean sea, the Indian ocean and the Atlantic, Portuguese, Andhra, Bengal and Vietnamese coasts. Celebrates the hybridity and cosmopolitanism that port-cities offer and discusses the wider implications of cross-cultural competition, port-hinterland dynamics as well as themes, problems and textual evidence about port-cities and how they link to ports today."--Book Jacket.
Notes
Contributed articles.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-411) and index.
ISBN
  • 9789380607948
  • 9380607946
LCCN
2014356946
OCLC
878600742
RCP
C - S
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