Crossing the Bay of Bengal The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants

Name: Crossing the Bay of Bengal The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants
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ISBN: 9780674724839

ISBN-10: 0674724836

ISBN-13: 9780674724839

Edition: 2013

Authors: Sunil S. Amrith

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The Indian Ocean was global long before the Atlantic, and today the countries bordering the Bay of Bengal--India, Bangladesh, Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Malaysia--are home to one in four people on Earth. Crossing the Bay of Bengal places this region at the heart of world history for the first time. Integrating human and environmental history, and mining a wealth of sources, Sunil Amrith gives a revelatory and stirring new account of the Bay and those who have inhabited it.For centuries the Bay of Bengal served as a maritime highway between India and China, and then as a battleground for European empires, all while being shaped by the monsoons and by human migration. Imperial powers in…

Book details

List price: $31.50
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/7/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Sunil S. Amrith is Reader in Modern Asian History at Birkbeck College, University of London.



Prologue: The Bay of Bengal in History



The Life of the Bay of Bengal



That Vast Sea's Emporium



Turbulent Journeys, Sacred Geographies



Human Traffic



Oceans' Crossroads



Crossings Interrupted



The Pursuit of Citizenship



When the Waters Rise


Epilogue: Crossing the Bay of Bengal


Glossary


List of Abbreviations


Notes


Archives and Special Collections


Acknowledgments


Index