Télécharger le livre :  Droughts, Floods, and Global Climatic Anomalies in the Indian Ocean World

This book explores histories of droughts and floods in the Indian Ocean World, and their connections to broader global climatic anomalies. It deploys an interdisciplinary approach rooted in the emerging field of climate history to investigate the multifaceted effects of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-05-23
Collection : Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World

This book examines trades in animals and animal products in the history of the Indian Ocean World (IOW). An international array of established and emerging scholars investigate how the roles of equines, ungulates, sub-ungulates, mollusks, and avians expand our...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-07-21
Collection : Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Disease Dispersion and Impact in the Indian Ocean World

This volume views the study of disease as essential to understanding the key historical developments underpinning the foundation of contemporary Indian Ocean World (IOW) societies. The interplay between disease and climatic conditions, natural and manmade...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-03-31
Collection : Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Currencies of the Indian Ocean World

This book is the first to trace the unique monetary history of the Indian Ocean World. Long-distance trade across the region was facilitated by a highly complex multi-currency system undergirded by shared ideas that transcended ethno-linguistic, religious and class...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-08-24
Collection : Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Knowledge and the Indian Ocean

This volume examines Western India’s contributions to the spread of ideas, beliefs and other intangible ties across the Indian Ocean world. The region, particularly Gujarat and Bombay, is well-established in the Indian imaginary and in scholarship as a mercantile hub....
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-09-11
Collection : Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 1640–1945

The African Red Sea Littoral, currently divided between Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti, is one of the poorest regions in the world. But the pastoralist communities indigenous to this region were not always poor—historically, they had access to a variety of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-08-23
Collection : Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Textile Trades, Consumer Cultures, and the Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean

This collection examines cloth as a material and consumer object from early periods to the twenty-first century, across multiple oceanic sites—from Zanzibar, Muscat and Kampala to Ajanta, Srivijaya and Osaka. It moves beyond usual focuses on a single fibre (such as...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-02-09
Collection : Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Labor on the Fringes of Empire

After the abolition of slavery in the Indian Ocean and Africa, the world of labor remained unequal, exploitative, and violent, straddling a fine line between freedom and unfreedom. This book explains why. Unseating the Atlantic paradigm of bondage and drawing from a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-01-23
Collection : Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Bondage and the Environment in the Indian Ocean World

Monsoon rains, winds, and currents have shaped patterns of production and exchange in the Indian Ocean world (IOW) for centuries. Consequently, as this volume demonstrates, the environment has also played a central role in determining the region’s systems of bondage and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-01-10
Collection : Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Connectivity in Motion

This original collection brings islands to the fore in a growing body of scholarship on the Indian Ocean, examining them as hubs or points of convergence and divergence in a world of maritime movements and exchanges. Straddling history and anthropology and grounded in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-30
Collection : Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Slave Trade Profiteers in the Western Indian Ocean

This book examines how slave traders interacted with and resisted the British suppression campaign in the nineteenth-century western Indian Ocean. By focusing on the transporters, buyers, sellers, and users of slaves in the region, the book traces the many links between...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-12
Collection : Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Perspectives on French Colonial Madagascar

This book is a vivid history of Madagascar from the pre-colonial era to decolonization, examining a set of French colonial projects and perceptions that revolve around issues of power, vulnerability, health, conflict, control and identity. It focuses on three lines of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-09-08
Collection : Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World

This volume comprises a selection of essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines that discuss the exchange relationship between Africa and the wider Indian Ocean world (IOW), a macro-region running from East Africa to China, from early times to about 1300 CE....
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-12-19
Collection : Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Natural Hazards and Peoples in the Indian Ocean World

This book examines the dangers and the patterns of adaptation that emerge through exposure to risk on a daily basis. By addressing the influence of environmental factors in Indian Ocean World history, the collection reaches across the boundaries of the natural...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-07-09
Collection : Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World

Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World is a collection which covers a long time span and diverse areas around the ocean.  Many of the essays look at the Indian Ocean before Europeans arrived, reminding the reader that there was a cohesive Indian...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-02-05
Collection : Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume One

This interdisciplinary work, the first of two volumes, presents essays on various aspects of disease, medicine, and healing in different locations in and around the Indian Ocean from the ninth century to the early modern period. Themes include theoretical explanations...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-26
Collection : Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume Two

The Indian Ocean has been the site of multiple interconnected medical interactions that may be viewed in the context of the environmental factors connecting the region. This interdisciplinary work presents essays on various aspects of disease, medicine, and healing in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-26
Collection : Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  The Portuguese in the Creole Indian Ocean

This monograph is an exploration of the historical legacy of the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean, in particular in Goa, Macau, Melaka, and Malabar. Instead of fixing the gaze on either the colonial or the indigenous, it attempts to scrutinise a creole space that is...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-10-14
Collection : Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Sailors, Slaves, and Immigrants

Slaves, convicts, and unfree immigrants have traveled the oceans throughout human history, but the conventional Atlantic World historical paradigm has narrowed our understanding of modernity. This provocative study contrasts the Atlantic conflation of freedom and the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-09-04
Collection : Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Starvation and the State

Sudan has historically suffered devastating famines that have powerfully reshaped its society. This study shows that food crises were the result of exploitative processes that transferred resources to a small group of beneficiaries, including British imperial agents and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-12-17
Collection : Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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