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Imperial connections : India in the Indian Ocean arena, 1860-1920 /
An innovative remapping of empire, Imperial Connections offers a broad-ranging view of the workings of the British Empire in the period when the India of the Raj stood at the center of a newly globalized system of trade, investment, and migration. Thomas R. Metcalf argues that India itself became a...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2007.
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| Series: | California world history library ;
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | An innovative remapping of empire, Imperial Connections offers a broad-ranging view of the workings of the British Empire in the period when the India of the Raj stood at the center of a newly globalized system of trade, investment, and migration. Thomas R. Metcalf argues that India itself became a nexus of imperial power that made possible British conquest, control, and governance across a wide arc of territory stretching from Africa to eastern Asia. His book, offering a new perspective on how imperialism operates, emphasizes transcolonial interactions and webs of influence that advanced the. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 264 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-252) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520933330 0520933338 9781429471800 1429471808 9780520258051 0520258053 1282762230 9781282762237 9786612762239 6612762233 1433709694 9781433709692 |