Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print - Softcover

Gelvin, James; Green, Nile

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520275020 ISBN 13: 9780520275027

Publisher: University of California Press, 2014

Synopsis

The second half of the nineteenth century marks a watershed in human history. Railroads linked remote hinterlands with cities; overland and undersea cables connected distant continents. New and accessible print technologies made the wide dissemination of ideas possible; oceangoing steamers carried goods to faraway markets and enabled the greatest long-distance migrations in recorded history. In this volume, leading scholars of the Islamic world recount the enduring consequences these technological, economic, social, and cultural revolutions had on Muslim communities from North Africa to South Asia, the Indian Ocean, and China. Drawing on a multiplicity of approaches and genres, from commodity history to biography to social network theory, the essays in Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print offer new and diverse perspectives on a transnational community in an era of global transformation.

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Review:

"Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print collects into a richly textured account some of the best work on Islamic world and Indian Ocean history."--On Barak"American Historical Review" (02/01/2015)

About the Author:

James L. Gelvin is Professor of History at UCLA and author of The Modern Middle East: A History (2011). Nile Green is Professor of History at UCLA and author of Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915 (2011).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0520275020
• ISBN 13: 9780520275027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 271