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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Indian Ocean World"”.
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The Anglo-Dutch Imperial Meridian in the Indian Ocean World, 1795-1820
… Dutch and British empires overlapped across the Indian Ocean in the late eighteenth century? Histories of these empires generally focus on their early modern rivalry through patterns of war and trade that subsided after Britain’s invasion of Dutch colonies during the French Revolutionary and …
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Archipelagic thinking in the Indian Ocean world : the story of 'Sindbad the Sailor' and Alan Villiers's Sons of Sindbad
… on the travel literature produced through the Indian Ocean world of the dhow trade. It examines the medieval story of "Sindbad the Sailor and Sindbad the Porter" alongside the 20th century travel narrative Sons of Sindbad (1940) written by mariner and author Alan Villiers. Both texts engage …
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Paradise Lost: The Biblical Fashioning of the East Indies in Dutch Chorographical Accounts, 1596-1726
… inflections of Dutch representations of the world. My thesis, by contrast, shows how Dutch chorographical writings about Asia were closely intertwined with popular debates in Biblical philology taking place in the Netherlands. Through four case studies, my thesis demonstrates how Dutch …
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What’s in a World? Economic, political and cultural convergence across the medieval western Indian Ocean.
The study of the archaeology and history of the Indian Ocean littoral is often framed through the lens of the “Indian Ocean World”. This framework goes beyond the more traditional focus on political frontiers and land-based boundaries, conceptualising the sea as a sphere of connections, not as a …
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The transportation of convicts from the Madras Presidency to the Straits Settlements, 1789 - 1860
… Madras Presidency to penal colonies across the Indian Ocean, particularly the Straits Settlements, between 1789 and 1860. It discusses the transportation of Indian convicts across the Indian Ocean as a carceral network, understanding it as a set of connections and interactions across the Indian …
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Rare Earth: Gemstones, Geohistory, and Commercial Geography c. 1600-1750
… until the eighteenth century, most of the world’s precious stones were mined in South and Southeast Asia. Europeans had long associated these parts of the world with mineral wealth, but it was not until the establishment of direct maritime connections to Indian Ocean trade in the early …
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Bearing the mark, bearing the costs: memories of slavery in coastal Tanzania, 1922-2008
… concerning slavery in East Africa and the Indian Ocean World in that it centers the experiences of community members through the use of their own testimony, thus providing additional insight into the ways in which the vestiges of slavery persist in post-emancipation societies.
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Slums, Squatters and Urban Redevelopment Schemes in Bombay, Hong Kong, and Singapore, 1894-1960
… to Singapore and other port cities across the Indian Ocean world. Chapter three considers the consequences of the second wave of ‘indirect’ attacks on urban slums on an evolving imperial urbanism in Bombay, Rangoon, and Singapore. While previous chapters examined the emergence of an imperial …
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Abode of Peace: Islam, empire, and the Khoja diaspora (1866 - 1972)
… nationalism, and decolonisation around the Indian Ocean, ca. 1866 – 1972. A trading community originally from western India, the Khojas were defined in the colonial imaginary as a permanent “minority” regardless of the vantage point: they were Muslim subjects in India, Indian subjects in …