Reinterpreting Indian Ocean Worlds : Essays in Honour of Kirti N. Chaudhuri ISBN: 9781443830447 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: History; Geography/ Travel;
The Indian Ocean World was an idea borne out by researchers in economic history and trade in the 1980s in response to the compartmentalization of specific area studies within the wider rubric of Asian civilisations and culture. Prof. Kirti N. ChaudhuriOCOs books Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company (1978) and then Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean (1985) figured amongst the forefront of this new movement in historical thinking, undertaking detailed historical analys...