Port Cities and Intruders
Port Cities and Intruders

Author: Michael N. Pearson

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1998-02-26

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0801856922

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Over many centuries, the Swahili coast of East Africa had intricate connections with India, with the Islamic world and with the peoples of the the interior. There was major economic, social and religious interchange. The intrusion of the Portuguese in the 16th century was merely the latest of many foreign influences. This study in world history examines a particular time and place to show the diversity and complexity of cultural and economic contacts.

Port Cities and Intruders
Port Cities and Intruders

Author: Michael N. Pearson

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2002-10-14

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0801870283

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Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title In Port Cities and Intruders, historian Michael Pearson explores the role of port cities and their orientation, relations between the coast and the interior, the place of the coast in the world economy, and the impact of the Portuguese in the early modern period.

Port Cities and Intruders
Port Cities and Intruders

Author: Michael N. Pearson

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Published: 2003-01-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780801872426

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Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title In Port Cities and Intruders, historian Michael Pearson explores the role of port cities and their orientation, relations between the coast and the interior, the place of the coast in the world economy, and the impact of the Portuguese in the early modern period.

Cities in the World: 1500-2000: v. 3
Cities in the World: 1500-2000: v. 3

Author: Adrian Green

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-13

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 135157180X

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Papers presented at the Cities in the World conference held at Southampton University and organised through the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology challenged the commonly held perception that cities are about the present and the future, not about the past. All cities have an innate sense of the past, and this volume, encompassing as it does

The Persian Gulf in Modern Times
The Persian Gulf in Modern Times

Author: L. Potter

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-12-16

Total Pages: 641

ISBN-13: 1137485779

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This book explores the historiography, ports, and peoples of the Persian Gulf over the past two centuries, offering a more inclusive history of the region than previously available. Restoring the history of minority communities which until now have been silenced, the book provides a corrective to the 'official story' put forward by modern states.

Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe

Author: Derek Massarella

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-01-28

Total Pages: 697

ISBN-13: 140947223X

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In 1582 Alessandro Valignano, the Visitor to the Jesuit mission in the East Indies, sent four Japanese boys to Europe. Until the arrival of the embassy in Europe, the Euro-Japanese encounter had been almost exclusively one way: Europeans going to Japan. This book is an account of their travels, their long journeys out and back, and the 20 months in Europe being received by popes and kings. It was published in Macao in 1590 with the title De Missione Legatorvm Iaponensium ad Romanum curiam. The present edition is the first complete version of this rich, complex and impressive work to appear in English, and is accompanied with maps and illustrations of the mission, and an introduction discussing its context and the subsequent reception of the book.

Ocean of Trade
Ocean of Trade

Author: Pedro Machado

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-11-06

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1316094472

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Ocean of Trade offers an innovative study of trade, production and consumption across the Indian Ocean between the years 1750 and 1850. Focusing on the Vāniyā merchants of Diu and Daman, Pedro Machado explores the region's entangled histories of exchange, including the African demand for large-scale textile production among weavers in Gujarat, the distribution of ivory to consumers in Western India, and the African slave trade in the Mozambique channel that took captives to the French islands of the Mascarenes, Brazil and the Rio de la Plata, and the Arabian peninsula and India. In highlighting the critical role of particular South Asian merchant networks, the book reveals how local African and Indian consumption was central to the development of commerce across the Indian Ocean, giving rise to a wealth of regional and global exchange in a period commonly perceived to be increasingly dominated by European company and private capital.

Indo-Islamic society
Indo-Islamic society

Author: André Wink

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9789004135611

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This third volume of Andre Wink's acclaimed and pioneering "Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World" takes the reader from the late Mongol invasions to the end of the medieval period and the beginnings of early modern times in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. It breaks new ground by focusing attention on the role of geography, and more specifically on the interplay of nomadic, settled and maritime societies. In doing so, it presents a picture of the world of India and the Indian Ocean on the eve of the Portuguese discovery of the searoute: a world without stable parameters, of pervasive geophysical change, inchoate and instable urbanism, highly volatile and itinerant elites of nomadic origin, far-flung merchant diasporas, and a famine- and disease-prone peasantry whose life was a gamble on the monsoon.

Al-Hind, Volume 3 Indo-Islamic Society, 14th-15th Centuries
Al-Hind, Volume 3 Indo-Islamic Society, 14th-15th Centuries

Author: André Wink

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2003-11-15

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 904740274X

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This third volume of Andre Wink's acclaimed and pioneering Al-Hind:The Making of the Indo-Islamic World takes the reader from the late Mongol invasions to the end of the medieval period and the beginnings of early modern times in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. It breaks new ground by focusing attention on the role of geography, and more specifically on the interplay of nomadic, settled and maritime societies. In doing so, it presents a picture of the world of India and the Indian Ocean on the eve of the Portuguese discovery of the searoute: a world without stable parameters, of pervasive geophysical change, inchoate and instable urbanism, highly volatile and itinerant elites of nomadic origin, far-flung merchant diasporas, and a famine- and disease-prone peasantry whose life was a gamble on the monsoon.