Networks in the First Global Age 1400-1800 - Hardcover

9789380607092: Networks in the First Global Age 1400-1800

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9380607091 ISBN 13: 9789380607092

Publisher: Primus Books, 2011

The dynamics of the maritime world has held the fascination of researchers and scholars of history for long. Viewing the waterscapes as conduits of much economic and cultural sharing between peoples and lands, the focus of Networks in the First Global Age: 1400-1800 is on the oceans and seas--the Indian, the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea--and economic, military and cultural transmissions within and across them.The book shows how conventional arguments in history writing about the rise of theWest, the hegemon of the State and the might of overseas colonial empires can beoverturned by emphasizing on dynamic, collaborative, nonlinear networks as opposed toformal networks based on hierarchy. Such networks signal a completely different pictureabout global interactions in the period 1400-1800, emphasizing the centrality of peoples andcommodities at different times in different parts of the world. More importantly, the bookchallenges chronological readings and urges us to think spatially instead.With contributions from Indian, American, French and Iberian scholars, Networks in the First Global Age: 1400-1800 tells us what happens when the sea of history meets the sea ofnetwork analysis.

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About the Author:

RILA MUKHERJEE is Professor of History, University of Hyderabad and presently Director, Institut de Chandernagor. She is the editor of Vanguards of Globalization: Port-Cities from the Classical to the Modern (2014), Oceans Connect: Reflections on Water Worlds Across Time and Space (2013), Pelagic Passageways: the Northern Bay of Bengal Before Colonialism (2011) and Networks in the First Global Age, 1400-1800 (2011). She is currently working on responses to natural hazards in history.

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