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Title

Cross currents and community networks : the history of the Indian Ocean world / edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray and Edward A. Alpers.

Publication

New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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• Ray, Himanshu Prabha.
• Alpers, Edward A.

Description

xiv, 311 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

Contributed articles presented in a seminar organized by Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, India, in December 2003.

Subject

Indian Ocean Region > History > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Studying the Indian Ocean world : problems and opportunities / Michael N. Pearson -- Maritime communities : an overview / Kenneth McPherson -- Crossing the seas : connecting maritime spaces in colonial India / Himanshu Prabha Ray -- War, movement, and resettlement : the Paravas and the Jesuits in the sixteenth century / Mahesh Gopalan -- Aceh between two worlds : an intersection of Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean / Anthony Reid -- Littoral society in the Mozambique Channel / Edward A. Alpers -- VOC Cape Town as an Indian Ocean port / Nigel Worden -- Oman and Zanzibar : the historical roots of a global community / Erik Gilbert -- The network of monetary exchange in the Indian Ocean trade, 1200-1700 / Najaf Haider -- Money on the move : the rupee and the Indian Ocean region / Shailendra Bhandare -- Non-metallic currencies of India in Indian Ocean trade and economies / Sanjay Garg -- Merchants in transit : risk-sharing strategies in the Indian Ocean / Lakshmi Subramanian -- Slavery and the trans-Indian Ocean World slave trade : a historical outline / Gwyn Campbell.

ISBN

• 9780195677058
• 0195677056

LCCN

2007394114

OCLC

• ocn122929071
• 122929071
• SCSB-5377698

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Columbia University Libraries