Maritime India. Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600-1800 (by Holden Furber) - Maritime India in the Seventeenth Century (by Sinnapah Arasaratnam) - The Indian Ocean. A History of People and the Sea (by Kenneth McPherson). With an Introduction by Sanjay Subrahmanyam.

Furber, Holden, Sinnappah Arasaratnam and Kenneth McPherson:

ISBN 10: 0195664280 / ISBN 13: 9780195664287

Published by New Delhi, Oxford University Press,, 2004

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ix, 408; vii, 294; vi, 327 p. "Nationalism in its variety has swayed the balance of world power, and history writing has leaned heavily towards the nation as a central concept. This is the tide against which the historiography of oceans has stood. As an area of research, it has evolved in perspective from looking at accounts of oceans as linked to imperialism, to analysing the specifies of politics, trade and other activity surrounding oceans. This omnibus of three classic studies provides a basic grounding for scholars of India`s maritime history." (Book Jacket) - Seiten papierbedingt gebräunt; Buchschnitt teils minimal fleckig; Einband teils etwas berieben und am Rücken verblichen; ansonsten wohlerhalten. - Pages browned due to paper; some edges minimally stained; binding somewhat rubbed and faded at spine; otherwise well-preserved. ISBN: 0195664280 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1400.

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• Title: Maritime India. Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600-1800 (by Holden Furber) - Maritime India in the Seventeenth Century (by Sinnapah Arasaratnam) - The Indian Ocean. A History of People and the Sea (by Kenneth McPherson). With an Introduction by Sanjay Subrahmanyam.
• Publisher: New Delhi, Oxford University Press,
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195664280
• ISBN 13: 9780195664287
• Binding: 8°, OPb.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 1400 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Indologie

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Synopsis

Maritime India in the Seventeenth Century

'This is an erudite addition to the expanding literature on the maritime history of India. Though the focus of the study is on the seventeenth century, it has wider implications for debates on wider issues.' —The Northern Mariner

'...Sinnappah Arasaratnam's most notable contribution is his ample consideration of the exchange networks between India's coasts ...and Southeast Asia...' — American Historical Review


The Indian Ocean: A History of People and the Sea

'This book offers an excellent introduction to the common history of the societies that have been linked by maritime activity in the Indian Ocean.' —Mariner's Mirror

'His strength...lies in an ability to put across
a
coherent narrative on social and political history with a minimum of fuss and pretension.' —The Economic Times


This omnibus of three classic studies provides a basic grounding for scholars of India s maritime histo ry . L
In an introduction written especially for this edition Sanjay Subrahmanyam locates these classics in the extant literature in the area. He argues that these works, the older being a quarter of a century old, are still insightful to new entrants into the field of maritime history.

Holden Furber's Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600 1800 is an account of European expansion in Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It tells the story of the rivalries of the East India companies and the growth of British maritime dominance, eventually leading to the Pax Britannica.


Sinnappah Arasaratnam, in his Maritime India in the Seventeenth Century, supplements his own researches into the overseas trade of India and its
commercial


economy, with a thorough study of the current historiography of these themes. He divides the maritime region into four zones Gujarat, Malabar, Coromandel, and Bengal and looks at the ports, the seas and the commerce of each regi on.


Kenneth McPherson's The Indian Ocean: A History of the People and the Sea argues for the existence of a distinctive Indian Ocean World constituted by trade links and commercial networks established over several centuries, and tells us about the peoples, cultures, and economies of the Indian Ocean.

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FURBER, HOLDEN/ARASARATNAM, SINNAPPAH/MCPHERSON, KENNETH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM