Research Catalog

Title

Empires between Islam and Christianity, 1500-1800 / Sanjay Subrahmanyam.

Author

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay

Publication

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2019]

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Details

Description

xii, 457 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"Empires between Islam and Christianity uses the innovative approach of "connected histories" to address a series of questions regarding the early modern world in the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic. The period between 1500 and 1800 was one of intense inter-imperial competition involving the Iberians, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the British, and other actors. Rather than understand these imperial entities separately, Sanjay Subrahmanyam reads their archives and texts together to show unexpected connections and refractions. He further proposes, in this set of closely argued studies, that these empires often borrowed from each other, or built their projects with knowledge of other competing visions of empire. The emphasis on connections is also crucial for an understanding of how a variety of genres of imperial and global history-writing developed in the early modern world. The book moves creatively between political, economic, intellectual, and cultural themes to suggest a fresh geographical conception for the epoch"--

Series Statement

SUNY series in Hindu studies

Uniform Title

SUNY series in Hindu studies.

Alternative Title

Empires between Islam & Christianity 1500-1800

Subject

• World history
• History, Modern
• East and West
• Imperialism
• Christianity and other religions
• Islam > Relations > Christianity
• Islam
• Interfaith relations
• Christianity

Note

• "Empires between Islam and Christianity, 1500-1800 by Sanjay Subrahmanyam was first published by Permanent Black"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-439) and index.

Contents

Introduction : revisiting empires and connecting histories -- Beginnings. Rethinking the establishment of the Estado da Índia, 1498-1509 -- Italians, Corsicans, and Portuguese in the Indian Ocean -- Unhappy subjects of empire, 1515-1530 -- Connections and comparisons. Connecting the Iberian empires, 1500-1640 -- Mughals, Ottomans, and Habsburgs : some comparisons -- Iberian roots of the British empire -- Representations. World historians in the sixteenth century -- Empires and wonders -- Early modern empires and intellectual networks -- Asia between and beyond empires.

Call Number

JFE 19-6500

ISBN

• 9781438474359
• 1438474350

LCCN

• 2018027696
• 40028823204

OCLC

1054264101

Author

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, author.

Title

Empires between Islam and Christianity, 1500-1800 / Sanjay Subrahmanyam.

Publisher

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

SUNY series in Hindu studies

SUNY series in Hindu studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-439) and index.

Other Standard Identifier

40028823204

Research Call Number

JFE 19-6500