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OverviewA history of two centuries of interactions among the areas bordering the western Indian Ocean, including India, Iran, and Africa. Beginning in the mid-fifteenth century, the regions bordering the western Indian Ocean—“the green sea,” as it was known to Arabic speakers—had increasing contact through commerce, including a slave trade, and underwent cultural exchange and transformation. Using a variety of texts and documents in multiple Asian and European languages, Across the Green Sea looks at the history of the ocean from a variety of shifting viewpoints: western India; the Red Sea and Mecca; the Persian Gulf; East Africa; and Kerala. Sanjay Subrahmanyam sets the scene for this region starting with the withdrawal of China's Ming Dynasty and explores how the western Indian Ocean was transformed by the growth and increasing prominence of the Ottoman Empire and the continued spread of Islam into East Africa. He examines how several cities, including Mecca and the vital Indian port of Surat, grew and changed during these centuries, when various powers interacted until famines and other disturbances upended the region in the seventeenth century. Rather than proposing an artificial model of a dominant center and its dominated peripheries, Across the Green Sea demonstrates the complexity of a truly dynamic and polycentric system through the use of connected histories, a method pioneered by Subrahmanyam himself. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sanjay SubrahmanyamPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.594kg ISBN: 9781477328774ISBN 10: 1477328777 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 19 March 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Maps List of Illustrations Preface A Note on Transliteration A Note on Currency and Tonnage Introduction: Conceptual Issues in Connected Histories 1. An Epoch of Transitions, 1440–1520 2. The View from the Hijaz, 1500–1550 3. The Afro-Indian Axis 4. The View from Surat A Conclusion: Toward Polyphonic Histories Notes IndexReviewsAuthor InformationSanjay Subrahmanyam is a Distinguished Professor of History and the Irving & Jean Stone Chair in Social Sciences at UCLA. He is the author of Europe’s India: Words, People, Empires, 1500–1800 and Empires Between Islam and Christianity, 1500–1800. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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