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2. Native American Captivity and Slavery in North America, 1492–1848
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Little, Ann
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- 2022
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3. Indigenous Nations and US Foreign Relations
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Parmenter, Jon
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- 2020
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4. Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston during the Cold War
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Quraishi, Uzma, author and Quraishi, Uzma
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- 2020
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5. Indigenous Movements in Latin America
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Becker, Marc and Stahler-Sholk, Richard
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- 2019
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6. Bollywood and Asian American Culture
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Desai, Jigna
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- 2019
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7. Digital Resources: Power of Attorney, A Digital Spatial History of Indigenous Legal Culture in Colonial Oaxaca, Mexico
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Yannakakis, Yanna
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- 2018
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8. Faulkner and the Native South
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Watson, Jay, editor, Trefzer, Annette, editor, and Thomas, James G., Jr., editor
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- 2019
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9. Christian Missions to American Indians
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Higham, Carol L.
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- 2016
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10. The Repeal of Asian Exclusion
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Hong, Jane H.
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- 2015
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11. Native Americans and Cities
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Rosenthal, Nicolas G.
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- 2015
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12. Archaeology of Early Colonial Interaction at El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba
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Valcárcel Rojas, Roberto, author and Valcárcel Rojas, Roberto
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- 2016
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13. Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians
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Hudson, Angela Pulley, author and Hudson, Angela Pulley
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- 2015
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14. Native American Whalemen and the World: Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race
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Shoemaker, Nancy, author and Shoemaker, Nancy
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- 2015
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15. Cities in South Asia
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Bates, Crispin and Mio, Minoru
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chandni ,chowk ,delhi ,durga ,dwellers ,indian ,mirror ,mumbai ,puja ,slum ,bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSL Ethnic studies ,bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTB Regional studies - Abstract
Globalisation has long historical roots in South Asia, but economic liberalisation has led to uniquely rapid urban growth in South Asia during the past decade. This book brings together a multidisciplinary collection of chapters on contemporary and historical themes explaining this recent explosive growth and transformations on-going in the cities of this region. The essays in this volume attempt to shed light on the historical roots of these cities and the traditions that are increasingly placed under strain by modernity, as well as exploring the lived experience of a new generation of city dwellers and their indelible impact on those who live at the city’s margins. The book discusses that previously, cities such as Mumbai grew by accumulating a vast hinterland of slum-dwellers who depressed wages and supplied cheap labour to the city’s industrial economy. However, it goes on to show that the new growth of cities such as Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Madras in south India, or Delhi and Calcutta in the north of India, is more capital-intensive, export-driven, and oriented towards the information technology and service sectors. The book explains that these cities have attracted a new elite of young, educated workers, with money to spend and an outlook on life that is often a complex mix of modern ideas and conservative tradition. It goes on to cover topics such as the politics of town planning, consumer culture, and the struggles among multiple identities in the city. By tracing the genealogies of cities, it gives a useful insight into the historical conditioning that determines how cities negotiate new changes and influences. There will soon be more mega cities in South Asia than anywhere else in the world, and this book provides an in-depth analysis of this growth. It will be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian History, Politics and Anthropology, as well as those working in the fields of urbanisation and globalisation.
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- 2015
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16. Princely India Re-imagined
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Ikegame, Aya
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city ,indian ,kaveri ,maharaja ,mysore ,palace ,river ,sultan ,tipu ,young ,bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government ,bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSL Ethnic studies ,bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTB Regional studies - Abstract
India’s Princely States covered nearly 40 per cent of the Indian subcontinent at the time of Indian independence, and they collapsed after the departure of the British. This book provides a chronological analysis of the Princely State in colonial times and its post-colonial legacies. Focusing on one of the largest and most important of these states, the Princely State of Mysore, it offers a novel interpretation and thorough investigation of the relationship of king and subject in South Asia. The book argues that the denial of political and economic power to the king, especially after 1831 when direct British control was imposed over the state administration in Mysore, was paralleled by a counter-balancing multiplication of kingly ritual, rites, and social duties. The book looks at how, at the very time when kingly authority was lacking income and powers of patronage, its local sources of power and social roots were being reinforced and rebuilt in a variety of ways. Using a combination of historical and anthropological methodologies, and based upon substantial archival and field research, the book argues that the idea of kingship lived on in South India and continues to play a vital and important role in contemporary South Indian social and political life.
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17. To the millennium: music as twentieth-century commodity.
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“In response to the new challenges created by the internet and the converging of communications media, the industry is working very hard on systems of encryption and watermarking and collaborates with the government to set up a strong legal framework and to educate the public about the value of music.” Frances Lowe, Director, British Music Rights, The Performing Rights Society “It is sickening to know that our art is being traded like a commodity rather than the art that it is.” Lars Ulrich, drummer of heavy metal band Metallica “There was this bloke and there was me and we really got along. Our friendship was founded on our mutual passions for pop music, indolence and substance abuse. We would sit around together, heroically stoned, and play records all day long: punk records, soul records, horny disco records like ‘Hot Stuff’ by Donna Summer . . . ” Dave Hill, music journalist Twentieth-century listening and its spaces Artists, fans, and the music business share an uneasy but symbiotic partnership. Dave Hill's homosocial friendship, exploring music not through performance but through listening to purchased recordings, is a deeply twentieth-century subjectivity, reflecting the basic premise of much musical entertainment since the invention of sound recording. This involves a set of paradoxical relationships. For one thing, ‘music’ is a phenomenon that can and perhaps should be considered and enjoyed in and for itself – but to facilitate this enjoyment it has become a commodity, bought, sold, and consumed, to the regret of many composers and performers such as Lars Ulrich. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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18. Western.
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Portes, Jacques
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To a European, nothing is more exotic than this term, which evokes the landscapes of the American West, complete with roaming cowboys and Indians. Thanks to the cinema, this is still true at the end of the twentieth century, but the legend was created in the Gilded Age, when it arose out of real clashes, sometimes of epic proportions. The opening of the West, which had been started before the Civil War, resumed with renewed vigor thanks to the railroad, and in one generation new states were carved out of these vast spaces. Their native inhabitants, rounded up and placed into reservations, gave way to pioneers, miners, ranchers, and farmers. French witnesses to these changes were impressed by the American achievement, yet nostalgic about the passing of the old order. Ever since the sixteenth century, the Indians had been part of the collective imagination of the Western world; by the early nineteenth century the dreams of Europeans were shaped by Leatherstocking and the other heroes of James Fenimore Cooper. In France, the considerable success of the works of Gustave Aimard perpetuated notions of the romantic and rugged American West until the 1870s. The French were therefore bound to be passionately interested in the fate of the Indians, who in those years experienced, even more than the blacks, their absolute nadir, despite their fierce struggle, from Little Big Horn in 1876 to Wounded Knee fourteen years later. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2000
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19. Mesoamerica Since the Spanish Invasion: an Overview.
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The nine chapters in this volume, all by mid-career or younger scholars, are a collective attempt to survey what is known of the history of Native American peoples in Mesoamerica since the Spanish invasion. Obviously, what we know about the various nations, groups, and regions varies widely. Nomadic peoples and those who leave behind little of their material cultures are generally less studied and less understood. The same can be said for peoples who did not write, either before or after the invasions, or about whom others wrote less. Geographical definitions have been kept deliberately fluid. Mesoamerican frontiers, as classically defined, were extended, especially over what today would be called the Mexican north. Many of these areas, after all, interacted with, or felt influences from, the sedentary centers. Nor did the editor try to impose geographical boundaries – which would have been arbitrary anyway in many cases – among the various essayists. Probably, as independent and idiosyncratic scholars, most would have ignored these admonitions anyway. So there are some overlapping discussions, and some areas that, falling between two stools somewhat, no doubt do not receive their deserved attention. Nor did the editor try to impose thematic unity, which would have been another thankless task, simply asking that certain basic informational themes be covered. Thus each chapter has individual emphases and interpretations, something that should surely be considered not a fault but, rather, a window through which variety and debate can be illuminated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2000
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20. AFTER ‘ANCIENT LAW’.
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Cocks, Raymond
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INDIAN VILLAGES AND ENGLISH UTILITARIANS An enthusiasm for Indian topics formed a consistent theme to Maine's writing: between the time of his early contributions to the Saturday Review in the mid-1850s and the publication of his last book in 1884, he wrote about the subcontinent in vivid terms. This fascination was in part the product of the subject's intrinsic interest; but in part, too, it was the product of Maine's pleasure in attacking the parochialism of his fellow Victorians: and this was so whether their prejudices arose out of some form of national intolerance, or a narrow vision of the common law, or religious dogmatism, or simple ignorance on any matter of any sort. For example, of Buckle's History of Civilisation he observed that the author has derived all the distinctive institutions of India and the peculiarities of its people from their consumption of rice. From this fact, he tells us, that the exclusive food of the natives of India is of an oxygenous rather than a carbonacious character, and it follows by an inevitable law that caste prevails, that oppression is rife, that rents are high; and that custom and law are stereotyped. The passage ought to be a caution against over-bold generalisation; for it unfortunately happens that the ordinary food of the people of India is not rice. In contrast, Maine was much more cautious in his use of generalisations relating to India. His colourful pronouncements were linked to qualifications and references to what was not yet known. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1988
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21. INTRODUCTION.
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Cocks, Raymond
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MAINE'S IDEAS In 1861 Maine published a book which he hoped would do much to improve the condition of English jurisprudence. In Ancient Law, its Connection with the Early History of Society and its Relation to Modern Ideas he wished to describe very old types of law, to explain these types by reference to their social and intellectual context, and to consider the relationship between them and modern forms of legal analysis. In the words of the brief preface to the first edition: ‘the direct object of the following pages is to indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind as they are reflected in ancient law, and to point out the relation of these ideas to modern thought’. Within a few years of its publication it was clear that he had written a popular book. In the view of a modern commentator discussing the development of law in the nineteenth century, Sir Henry Maine ‘wrote the only legal best seller of that, or perhaps any other century’. The popularity is easy to explain. The book is so well written that it has an appeal to readers of any generation; and to Victorians it had the added attraction of containing references to numerous topics which were fashionable at the time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1988
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22. Southern Africa, 1867–1886.
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In 1867, a solitary diamond was picked up by chance near the appropriately named settlement of Hopetown on the Orange river frontier of the northern Cape Colony. It was sent to the nearest magistracy, Colesberg, and from there by post to Grahamstown, where it was identified. When it arrived in Cape Town, Richard Southey, colonial secretary to the Cape government, declared in words both celebrated and prophetic: ‘Gentlemen, this is the rock on which the future success of South Africa will be built.’ New finds were reported daily from alluvial diggings along the Orange and Vaal rivers and their tributaries, and more importantly by 1870 diamonds were also being found in the open veld around the area to become known as Kimberley. Within five years it had become the world's largest producer of diamonds, outstripping even Brazil. A new era in the history of southern Africa had begun. In 1870, the political economy of Southern Africa was characterised by tremendous regional diversity. African kingdoms, Afrikaner republics and British colonies co-existed in a rough equilibrium of power, but pursuing widely differing social and economic goals. Although most Africans lived in largely self-sufficient agrarian societies, few were untouched by the coming of the merchant and the missionary. South of the Limpopo, much of the region was dominated by the operations of commercial capital derived from the mercantile enclaves of the coastal Cape Colony and Natal. Trading insinuated itself into the largely pre-capitalist agricultural economies of African peoples and into the proto-capitalist agricultural economies of the Afrikaners on the highveld, while the demands from Cape merchants for cattle and the firearms they brought in exchange profoundly affected the pastoral societies of south-western Africa, transforming the nature of warfare in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1985
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23. East Africa 1870–1905.
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East Africa in 1870 is best defined as the economic hinterland of the commercial entrepôt of Zanzibar. This area included much of what is now Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, as well as parts of Rwanda, Burundi, Zaïre, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and Somalia. The region was criss-crossed by trade routes which converged on the Swahili towns of the east coast. It was along these paths of Swahili expansion that Europeans in the later nineteenth century began to penetrate and occupy the interior. By 1905 Britain and Germany had divided most of East Africa between them, and they had achieved overall command in military and strategic terms. But their new colonial governments exercised a very uneven control over the African population, while the new colonial economies had only partly deflected local labour and capital from older systems of production and exchange. New economic structures were emerging, but their impact was only just becoming evident. Thus the period under study here is very much one of transition. To understand it, we need to consider not only the European innovation but also the local and regional economies, and the wide-ranging Swahili commercial and cultural network. We must also acknowledge the importance of individuals. The changes of the period gave much scope for the exercise of leadership and the pursuit of political rivalry. Initially, African horizons of statecraft were much enlarged, though often one early effect of colonial rule was to narrow them. What follows, then, is a synthesis stressing processes of differential integration in the immediate pre-colonial period, the dynamics of the decade of military conquest, 1888–99, and the terms of reconstruction preparatory to systematic state formation which occurred from the turn of the century until 1905. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1985
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24. Africa on the Eve of Partition.
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North of the equator It has become a truism of historical writing to conceive of Africa in the course of the nineteenth century as becoming increasingly a part of, and a product of, the expansion of Europe, which, beginning in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, had integrated ever larger areas of the world into a single economic system. In attempting an overview of the state of the continent on the eve of partition – roughly over the decade of the 1870s – a large number of questions arise from a consideration of this truism. To what extent was Africa already an adjunct of an economic system dominated by Europe? What was the relationship between Africa and this European system – was it one of an equal or an unequal exchange of commodities? To what extent was Africa dependent economically, if not yet politically? What social and ideological changes were beginning to follow from this dependency? Was Africa a fruit ripe for plucking in the 1870s, was there a certain inevitability about the forthcoming imperialist carve-up, or was partition an extraneous historical occurrence forced upon a continent which had within it other options for coping with the future? There are no answers to these questions that are at the same time simple and sensible. Certainly the answers to all such queries will differ, according to the region of Africa which is under scrutiny. Even within particular regions, the situation of individual states, societies or groups of people, their relations with each other and with the outside world (especially with the European capitalist economies) varied greatly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1985
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25. Introduction.
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This volume deals with a period of about thirty-five years, from about 1870 till about 1905. This was, of course, the period which saw, first, the scramble by European powers and interests to stake out territorial claims in Africa, next, the paper partition of the continent by those powers, and finally the colonial conquest and occupation. In 1870, the only large areas to have suffered such inroads lay either to the north of the Sahara or else to the south of the Limpopo. By 1905, Ethiopia and Morocco were the only truly independent African states, and the innumerable petty polities of pre-colonial Africa, as well as a few larger ones, had been consolidated into the forty-odd colonies and protectorates which were destined to become, with only a few subsequent changes, the sovereign states of modern, post-colonial Africa. Yet, to characterise the period wholly in this way, is to see it too much through European eyes. As the succeeding chapters show, African history throughout this period pursued paths still largely separate from those of the European colonisers. The treaty-making expeditions of a Binger or a Brazza, of a Johnston or a Lugard, of a Cardoso or a Serpa Pinto, were scarcely to be distinguished by any African observer from the trading caravans of the Dyula or the Hausa, of the Sudanese jallāba or the Swahili-Arabs, of the Mozambican Chikunda or the Angolan pombeiros. The diplomatic partition of the continent passed almost unnoticed by the Africans whose territory was at issue. The colonial conquest and occupation was experienced by them as a piecemeal phenomenon, which affected some of those living near the coasts as early as the 1870s and 1880s, but which reached most of the interior peoples only during the 1890s and the 1900s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1985
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26. Introduction.
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It is almost common knowledge by now, thanks to the penetrating research by several scholars on maritime history in the last few decades, that the opening of the direct sea route from Europe to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope brought about an integration of trade on a global scale in the early modern era (roughly between 1500 and 1800). The main focus of the present volume is to highlight the growth and development of the international trade between Europe and Asia, especially India, between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries which is extremely significant in the economic history of the world. This is the period when India was gradually incorporated into the capitalistic world system through oceanic trade with Europe. Encouraged by the Portuguese activities in the sixteenth century, various North European nations founded joint-stock companies in the early seventeenth century for trade in Asia, prominent among them being the English East India Company (EIC) and the Dutch Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC). The flow of silver from the ‘New World’ of America rendered trade between Europe and Asia easier. A portion of the silver which entered Europe from America was used in commerce with Asia. This, along with the silver that came from Japan, enhanced the purchasing power of the Europeans who were now in an advantageous position to procure goods for European markets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1999
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27. India in the eighteenth century: the formation of states and social groups.
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India in 1700 had a population of some 180 million people, a figure which represented about 20 per cent of the population of the entire world. Over much of this huge land mass from Kashmir in the north to the upland plateau of the Deccan in the south, the Mughal dynasty at Delhi fought to maintain an hegemony which had been consolidated in the second half of the sixteenth century by the Emperor Akbar. In the farther south of the peninsula Hindu warrior chieftains vied for control of villages, many claiming parcels of the authority of the Hindu Vijayanagar kingdom which had faded from the scene in the later sixteenth century. Under the Emperor Aurangzeb (1658–1707) the Muslim power at Delhi still shook the world. The Emperor remained capable of commanding a remarkable concentration of soldiers and treasure, if only in certain places and during some months of the year. In the 1680s the Mughals had destroyed the last independent Muslim kingdoms of the Deccan. In the following generation they continued to expand. Their lieutenants pushed down to the south-eastern coast and began to demand tribute from the Hindu warrior chiefs of all but the most remote parts of the former Vijayanagar domain. In 1689 they had beaten off the threat from the Hindu Maratha warriors of the western Deccan and had savagely executed their war-leader, Shambaji. In 1700 the Maratha capital, Satara, was taken by the Emperor's siege trains. Even in the north Mughal power was still strong. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1988
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28. Architecture and the struggle for authority under the later Mughals and their successor states.
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Asher, Catherine B.
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Historical developments Aurangzeb died in 1707, but the Mughal empire endured, at least officially, for another 150 years. It lasted until the British exiled and imprisoned the last Mughal ruler after the uprising in 1858. Shah 'Alam Bahadur Shah succeeded Aurangzeb in 1707. Continuous political turmoil prevented him, however, from entering the long-standing Mughal capital, Delhi, after his coronation. Delhi again became the imperial residence in 1712, but the empire continued to suffer seriously from financial problems, political intrigue, inadequately prepared rulers, and invasions. Moreover, Delhi experienced difficulties that reflected on the entire state. In 1739 the city was sacked by the Iranian ruler Nadir Shah and again in the 1750s by Afghans who entered India four times. In fact, as Delhi became increasingly vulnerable, it also became virtually all that was left of the Mughal empire. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, two Delhis emerged – the older Mughal city where the king still resided in Shah Jahan's fort, and British Delhi which increasingly encroached upon and transformed the older city. As the empire weakened, the nawabs of Murshidabad, Awadh and Hyderabad established their own successor states, while Sikh, Jat, Maratha and other Hindu rulers asserted their independence, carving out numerous little kingdoms from what once had been a single empire. The architecture sponsored by the rulers and inhabitants of these new domains is heavily dependent on the Mughal style established under Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb, yet in each case new formal interpretations and meaning are given to older forms. The results are often highly creative expressions, reflecting these houses' political allegiance and religious affiliation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1992
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29. Shah Jahan and the crystallization of Mughal style.
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Asher, Catherine B.
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Shah Jahan, Jahangir's third son, emerged victorious in the power struggle that developed after Jahangir's death and assumed the Mughal throne in 1628. His thirty-year reign is dominated by an outward sense of prosperity and stability unmatched even during Akbar's rule. At the same time, almost every aspect of courtly culture became increasingly formalized. Shah Jahan was portrayed as an aloof ideal king. Official histories thus present him as a just leader and staunch upholder of orthodox Islam, but they give little insight into the emperor's personal thoughts. Yet Shah Jahan's unreserved preference for Dara Shukoh, his eldest son, an eclectic mystic thinker, suggests other aspects of this ruler's character never alluded to in court histories. The painted image of Shah Jahan parallels the literary one. The emperor is portrayed in an idealized manner – while he ages over time, his features remain flawless. His inner character is never revealed. Rather, his role as semi-divine king of the world, a play on his name, is the focus of each portrait. His face is always surrounded by a halo, as in late representations of Jahangir. In some of these illustrations the metaphoric nature of the king's semi-divine and just quality is taken so far as to show small angels above his head, often crowning him, while at his feet are the lion and the lamb of peace. Even more than light imagery, paradisical imagery now evolves from verbal to visual forms, particularly in Shah Jahan's architecture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1992
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30. The age of Akbar.
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Asher, Catherine B.
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Mughal theories of kingship and state polity Akbar is generally recognized as the greatest and most capable of the Mughal rulers. Under him Mughal polity and statecraft reached maturity; and under his guidance the Mughals changed from a petty power to a major dynastic state. From his time to the end of the Mughal period, artistic production on both an imperial and sub-imperial level was closely linked to notions of state polity, religion and kingship. Humayun died in 1556, only one year after his return to Hindustan. Upon hearing the call to prayers, he slipped on the steep stone steps of the library in his Din-Panah citadel in Delhi. Humayun's only surviving son and heir-apparent, Akbar, then just fourteen years of age, ascended the throne and ruled until 1605 the expanding Mughal empire. Until about 1561, Akbar was under the control of powerful court factions, first his guardian, Bhairam Khan, and then the scheming Maham Anga, a former imperial wet-nurse. Between about 1560 and 1580, Akbar devoted his energies to the conquest and then the consolidation of territory in north India. This he achieved through battle, marriage, treaty and, most significantly, administrative reform. Concurrent with these activities, Akbar developed an interest in religion that, while initially a personal concern, ultimately transformed his concept of state. Many of the policies he adopted, such as the renunciation of the poll-tax (jiziya) for non-Muslims, had a solid political basis as well as a personal one, for Akbar, much more than his Mughal predecessors, saw every advantage in maintaining good relations with the Hindu majority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1992
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31. Precedents for Mughal architecture.
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Asher, Catherine B.
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In 1526 a descendant of the Iranian house of Timur, Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur, better known today simply as Babur, defeated the last ruler of the Lodi dynasty in a battle at Panipat, about 90 km north of Delhi. The Lodis were one of many short-lived Islamic houses that had ruled over much of the Indian subcontinent since the Islamic conquest of this area in 1192. Babur and his successors, who continued to rule north India until 1858, were known as the Mughals, a term Babur would not have liked, for originally it had a pejorative connotation. In contemporary eyes Babur's victory over Ibrahim Lodi was no more consequential than the frequent campaigns that brought changes in ruling power. However, well before the year 1600, during the reign of Babur's grandson, Akbar, it was clear that Mughal rule made a substantial impact on the cultural, economic, and political development of the lands it controlled – an area then called Hindustan. In the realm of architecture, the Mughals achieved master-builder status, producing monuments such as the Taj Mahal, which even today is considered one of the world's most magnificent buildings. Unlike the contemporary and powerful Islamic rulers of Iran and Turkey, the Safavids and Ottomans, the Mughals ruled a land dominated by non-Muslims, largely Hindus. Just as indigenous religions and traditions were tolerated and in many cases even respected by the Mughal rulers, so, too, they incorporated in their patronage of the arts, literature and music many indigenous elements. Over their 300-year rule, Mughal attitudes toward the indigenous Indian population – Hindu and Muslim – varied; so did Mughal adaptation of earlier Indian art forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1992
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32. Frontmatter.
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Asher, Catherine B.
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Additional material containing information relating to the printed edition of The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 1.4: Architecture of Mughal India, such as contents and copyright information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1992
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33. Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought
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Seaford, Richard
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Classics ,History ,Ancient ,Greece ,Indian ,Philosophy ,Atman (Hinduism) ,Chariot ,Parmenides ,Plato ,Ṛta ,thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thought::QDHA Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy - Abstract
From the sixth century BCE onwards there occurred a revolution in thought, with novel ideas such as such as that understanding the inner self is both vital for human well-being and central to understanding the universe. This intellectual transformation is sometimes called the beginning of philosophy. And it occurred – independently it seems - in both India and Greece, but not in the vast Persian Empire that divided them. How was this possible? This is a puzzle that has never been solved. This volume brings together Hellenists and Indologists representing a variety of perspectives on the similarities and differences between the two cultures, and on how to explain them. It offers a collaborative contribution to the burgeoning interest in the Axial Age and will be of interest to anyone intrigued by the big questions inspired by the ancient world.
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- 2016
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34. Dharmalan Dana
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Nelson, George and Nelson, Robynne
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australia ,aboriginal ,indian ,ancestors ,mauritius ,Barmah ,Family (biology) ,Grampa Simpson ,bic Book Industry Communication::B Biography & True Stories::BG Biography: general::BGH Biography: historical, political & military::BGHA Autobiography: historical, political & military - Abstract
A Yorta Yorta man’s seventy-three-year search for the story of his Aboriginal and Indian ancestors including his Indian Grampa who, as a real mystery man, came to Yorta Yorta country in Australia, from Mauritius, in 1881 and went on to leave an incredible legacy for Aboriginal Australia. This story is written through George Nelson’s eyes, life and experiences, from the time of his earliest memory, to his marriage to his sweetheart Brenda, through to his journey to Mauritius at the age of seventy-three, to the production of this wonderful story in the present.
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- 2014
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35. Animals in Stone
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van der Geer, Alexandra
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animal ,art ,deities ,domestication ,history ,ho2 ,Indian ,mythology ,ritual ,sacrifice ,sculpture ,theriomorphic ,vahana ,zoomorphic ,bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history ,bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AC History of art / art & design styles::ACB Art styles not defined by date::ACBP Oriental art ,bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1F Asia::1FK Indian sub-continent - Abstract
The art history of South Asia covers a time span of roughly four and a half thousand years. During this period, a vast number of animal stone sculptures has been produced, ranging from the pre-historic period till today and covering a great variety of motifs and imagery in different regions and religious traditions. Even so, the number of studies devoted to these animal sculptures has remained extremely limited. The present book aims at filling this knowledge gap. With this richly illustrated book, the first of its kind, Van der Geer offers a comparative study of the ways in which various animals have been depicted and a lucid analysis of the sculptors’ treatment of their “models”: living animals. The art history of sculptured animals is contextualized with a description of the use of animals as can be read from ancient texts, archaeological evidence and contemporaneous culture. In doing so, parallels as well as differences in style or iconography are highlighted, elucidating the variety of animal depictions across regions, religious contexts and through time. The corpus of discussed material ranges from Indus seals, stupa panels and railings, monumental temples from North and South India, non-religious palace and fort architecture to loose sculptures in museum collections.
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- 2008
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36. Asian Anthropology
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Van Bremen, jan, Ben-Ari, Eyal, and Farid Alatas, Syed
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indigenous ,cultural ,folklore ,studies ,indonesian ,indian ,anthropologists ,adat ,law ,anthropological ,thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies ,thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies - Abstract
Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of assuming a universal standard or trajectory for the development of anthropology in Asia, the contributors to this volume begin with the appropriate premise that anthropologies in different Asian countries have developed and continue to develop according to their own internal dynamics. With chapters written by an international group of experts in the field, Asian Anthropology will be a useful teaching tool and a valuable resource for scholars working in Asian anthropology.
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- 2005
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37. Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism
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Brekke, Torkel
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early ,vinaya ,pit ,buddhist ,literature ,indian ,religion ,texts ,buddha ,biographies ,thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies ,thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy ,thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRF Buddhism ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies - Abstract
Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This is the first book to apply the insights of social psychology in order to understand the religious motivation of the people who constituted the early Buddhist community. It also addresses the more general and theoretically controversial question of how world religions come into being, by focusing on the conversion process of the individual believer.
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- 2002
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38. Global Culture, Island Identity
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Fog Olwig, Karen
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afro-caribbean ,community ,colonial ,society ,west ,indian ,islands ,population ,pilgrim ,holiness ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology - Abstract
Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements into the framework of social life, to create an Afro-Caribbean culture that was distinctive and yet geographically unbounded - a "global culture". The book takes as its point of departure the processes of cultural interaction and reflectivity. It argues that the study of cultural continuity should be guided by the notion of cultural complexity involving the continuous constitution, development and assertion of culture. It emphasizes the interplay between local and global cultures, and examines the importance of cultural display for peoples who have experienced the process of socioeconomic marginalization in the Western world.
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- 1996
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39. Young, Female and Black
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Mirza, Heidi Safia
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women ,west ,indian ,woman ,hilda ,girl ,girls ,pupils ,families ,labour ,thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education ,thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBP Health systems and services ,thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MQ Nursing and ancillary services - Abstract
Young black women bear all the hallmarks of a fundamentally unequal society. They do well at school, contribute to society, are good efficient workers yet, as a group they consistently fail to secure the economic status and occupational prestige they deserve. This book presents a serious challenge to the widely held myth that young black women consistently underachieve both at school and in the labour market. In a comparative study of research and writig from America, Britain and the Caribbean Young, Female and Black re-examines our present understanding of what is meant by educational underachievement, the black family and, in particular, black womanhood in Britain.
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- 1992
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40. Village Matters: Relocating Villages in the Contemporary Anthropology of India
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Yazgi, Nicolas, editor. Editor and Mines, Diane P., editor. Editor
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- 2010
41. Writing Labour: Stone Quarry Workers in Delhi
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Talib, Mohammad, ethnographer. Contributor
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- 2010
42. Global Body Shopping: An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry
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Biao, Xiang, ethnographer. Contributor
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- 2007
43. Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual And Public Culture in Urban South India
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Hancock, Mary Elizabeth, ethnographer. Contributor
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- 1999
44. Cult of the Goddess: Social and Religious Change in a Hindu Temple
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Preston, James J., ethnographer. Contributor
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- 1985
45. Fighting for Faith and Nation: Dialogues with Sikh Militants
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Mahmood, Cynthia Keppley, ethnographer. Contributor
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- 1996
46. Siva and Her Sisters: Gender, Caste, and Class in Rural South India
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Kapadia, Karin, ethnographer. Contributor
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- 1995
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