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The Gulf in world history : Arabia at the global crossroads /

Presenting new evidence, new theoretical approaches, and new arguments, this volume aims to change understandings of the Gulf in the world.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fromherz, Allen James (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: world history in the Gulf as a gulf in world history / Allen James Fromherz
  • The cosmopolitan figure as ethical exemplar: notes from a tenth-century Gulf encyclopedia / Richard McGregor
  • The Gulf: a cosmopolitan mobile society--Hormuz, 1475-1515 CE / Valeria Piacentini Fiorani
  • From Jerusalem to the Karun: what can Mandaean geographies tell us? / Charles Haberl
  • Merchant communities and cross-cultural trade between Gujarat and the Gulf in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Ghulam A. Nadri
  • The Banians of Muscat: a South Asian merchant community in Oman and the Gulf, C. 1500-1700 / Abdulrahman al Salimi
  • Khaliji Hindustan: towards a diasporic history of Khalijis in South Asia from the 1780s to the 1960s / Johan Mathew
  • Africans and the Gulf: between diaspora and cosmopolitanism / Matthew S. Hopper
  • East Africa, the global Gulf and the new thassology of the Indian Ocean / Mark Horton
  • Astrology as a node of connectivity between the pre-modern Mediterranean and Gulf / Michael A. Ryan
  • Ships of the Gulf: shifting names and networks / Eric Staples
  • The role of Indian Ocean trade inland: the Buraimi Oasis / Timothy Power
  • Pearl fishing and globalisation: from the neolithic to the twentieth century CE / Robert Carter
  • An archaeology of glass and international trade in the Gulf / Carolyn M. Swan
  • From history to heritage: the Arabian incense burner / Willilam G. Zimmerle
  • Doha's Msheireb heritage house museums: a discussion of memory, history and the Indian Ocean world / Karen Exell
  • Omani identity amid the old crisis / Lamya Harub.