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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 ;
4. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Empire Recentered
- 1
- Governing Colonial Peoples
- 2
- Constructing Identities
- 3
- Projecting Power: The Indian Army Overseas
- 4
- Recruiting Sikhs for Colonial Police and Military
- 5
- "Hard Hands and Sound Healthy Bodies": Recruiting "Coolies" for Natal
- 6
- India in East Africa
- Conclusion
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.