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Oceans Connect: Reflections On Water Worlds Across Time and Space

 
Rila Mukherjee (Editor) Issues in History
Synopsis

The volume examines how seas and oceans connect geographically as also through networks of trade, cooperation, beliefs, scientific knowledge and rumour. It emphasises open spaces rather than land boundaries and thus decolonises regional history and accentuates the difference between marine and maritime worlds. Focusing on the Pacific, Atlantic and the Indian Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, it calls for a re-conceptualisation of maritime history. Viewing waterscapes as autonomous bodies, it studies mobility and paths of cultural transmission—how people and goods are conveyed across waters, the imagined unities of people in terms of locals and diasporic populations, and the establishment of regions, trading blocs and empires. It takes up diverse themes like role of the Portuguese in the making of world history and Portuguese overseas expansion, the Indian Ocean in the European trading horizon and Thai trade in the Indian Ocean.

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About the author

Rila Mukherjee

Rila Mukherjee is Professor and Head, Department of History, School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. Her specialization is on the silk trade and traders in pre-colonial Bengal. She is the author of Strange Riches: Bengal in the Mercantile Map of South Asia (2006) and Merchants and Companies in Bengal: Kasimbazar and Jugdia in the Eighteenth Century (2006).

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Bibliographic information

Title Oceans Connect: Reflections On Water Worlds Across Time and Space
Format Hardcover
Date published: 04.06.2013
Edition 1st.ed.
Publisher Primus Books
Language: English
isbn 9789380607405
length xvi+286p., Illustrations; Maps; 25cm.
Subjects History