Europe's India: words, people, empires, 1500-1800
Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: Harvard University Press, 2017
Buch, Gedruckte Ressource
- xvii, 394 Seiten : Illustrationen
Zugriff:
- Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster, Zentralbibliothek (DE-6), Bibliothekskatalog
- Universitätsbibliothek der Fernuniversität (DE-708), Bibliothekskatalog
Europe's India tracks the changing place of India in the European imagination over three centuries, by looking closely at a varied cast of actors and sites of interaction, from ports and coastal enclaves to inland courts. The opening of the Cape Route by Vasco da Gama in 1498 created a new set of conditions for dealings between Europe and India (and Asia more generally). In the decades that followed, many different Europeans - traders, military men, missionaries and others - came to India, and produced a set of images regarding the sub-continent that left a deep imprint on the European imagination. Initially, the Europeans were relatively minor actors on the fringes of India, but over time they came to occupy a situation of power, especially after about 1750. The particular strength of this book is its close examination of a number of individual agents, acting both within the European empires, and at their fringes. Though the central axis is that between Europe and India, this is equally a larger exercise in a global and connected history of the early modern world....
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Europe's India: words, people, empires, 1500-1800
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Verantwortlichkeitsangabe: | Sanjay Subrahmanyam |
Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Subrahmanyam, Sanjay (1961-) [Autor/in] |
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Veröffentlichung: | Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: Harvard University Press, 2017 |
Medientyp: | Buch |
Datenträgertyp: | Gedruckte Ressource |
Umfang: | xvii, 394 Seiten : Illustrationen |
ISBN: | 9780674972261; 0674972260 |
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