Indian Ocean histories : the many worlds of Michael Naylor Pearson /

Michael Naylor Pearson's work falls under the genre of global or world history and has tremendous impact on the study of the Indian Ocean world. He brought together different disciplines, and emphasized on the holistic view of the worlds of water. This book will serve as a guide and as a reader...

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Other Authors: Mukherjee, Rila (Editor), Seshan, Radhika (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Indian Ocean histories / Rila Mukherjee
  • The Indian Ocean : global nexus, 1500-1800 / Patrick Manning
  • The Sodden archive : Africa, the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean / Isabel Hofmeyr
  • The Kakatiyas, Motupalli and the Southern Bay of Bengal linkages / Radhika Seshan
  • Regional identities, maritime networking and Islamic conversions in fifteenth-century Java / Kenneth R. Hall
  • Brokers and go-betweens within the Portuguese state of India (1500-1700) / Amélia Polo'nia
  • South Asian settlers at Batavia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Ryuto Shimada
  • Physicians, surgeons, merchants and healers : production, circulation and reconfiguration of knowledge in eighteenth-century Portuguese India / Fabiano Bracht
  • Indian seamen (lascars), shipboard labor regime, and the East India Company in the first half of the nineteenth century / Ghulam A. Nadri
  • Hazards and history on the western Australian coast : the 'Pearling Fleet Disaster' of 1887 / Joseph Christensen
  • Landscape, rajah and wax prints : contemporary archaeologies of India in Mozambique / Pedro Pombo
  • Littoral shell tracks : tracing Burma's transregional pearl histories / Pedro Machado
  • Michael Naylor Pearson : the discipline of history, the sea and the man / Rila Mukherjee.