Hundred Horizons The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire

Name: Hundred Horizons The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire
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ISBN: 9780674032194

ISBN-10: 0674032195

ISBN-13: 9780674032194

Edition: 2006

Authors: Sugata Bose, S. Bose

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On December 26, 2004, giant tsunami waves destroyed communities around the Indian Ocean, from Indonesia to Kenya. Beyond the horrific death toll, this wall of water brought a telling reminder of the interconnectedness of the many countries on the ocean rim, and the insignificance of national boundaries. A Hundred Horizons takes us to these shores, in a brilliant reinterpretation of how culture developed and history was made at the height of the British raj.Between 1850 and 1950, the Indian Ocean teemed with people, commodities, and ideas: pilgrims and armies, commerce and labor, the politics of Mahatma Gandhi and the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore were all linked in surprising ways. Sugata…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 6/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.19" wide x 7.94" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Sugata Bose is Gardiner Professor of History at Harvard University.



Preface



Space and Time on the Indian Ocean Rim



The Gulf between Precolonial and Colonial Empires



Flows of Capitalists, Laborers, and Commodities



Waging War for King and Country



Expatriate Patriots: Anticolonial Imagination and Action



Pilgrims' Progress under Colonial Rules



A Different Universalism? Oceanic Voyages of a Poet as Pilgrim


Conclusion: The Indian Ocean Arena in the History of Globalization


Notes


Index