Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought
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Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought

  1. 250 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought

About this book

This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. Introducing the central conceptual category of ocean as method, it analyzes the histories of movement and traversing across connected spaces of water and land sedimented in literary texts, folklore, local histories, autobiographies, music and performance. It explores the constant flow of people, material and ideologies across the waters and how they make their presence felt in a cosmopolitan thinking of the connections of the world. Going beyond violent histories of slavery and indenture that generate global connections, it tracks the movements of sailors, boatmen, religious teachers, merchants, and adventurers.

The essays in this volume summon up this miscegenated history in which land and water are ever linked. A significant rethinking of world history, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, especially connected history and maritime history, literature, and Global South studies.

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Yes, you can access Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought by Dilip M Menon, Nishat Zaidi, Dilip M Menon,Nishat Zaidi in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Military & Maritime History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge India
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032607344
eBook ISBN
9781000859492
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Military & Maritime History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of figures
  7. List of contributors
  8. Introduction: Oceanic Imagination and Cosmopolitan Cultures: Thinking Through History Across the Waters
  9. I The Poetics of Fluvial Cosmopolitanism
  10. II Oceanic Narratives
  11. III Constructing Space
  12. IV Religion, Knowledge and Law Across the Oceans
  13. Index