Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Sunil Amrith
yhteensä 15 hakutulosta
Crossing the Bay of Bengal
For centuries the Bay of Bengal served as a maritime highway between India and China, and as a battleground for European empires, while being shaped by monsoons and human …
Sites of Asian Interaction
A focus on the sites of Asian interaction enables this volume to shed new light on the growing field of diaspora studies. Research on Asia's many diasporas has enriched the older …
Reading from the South
This set of essays analyses the work of Isabel Hofmeyr, globally recognised as one of South Africa's foremost literary and Indian Ocean scholars. The essays elucidate Hofmeyr's …
Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia
Migration is at the heart of Asian history. For centuries migrants have tracked the routes and seas of their ancestors - merchants, pilgrims, soldiers and sailors - along the Silk …
Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History
From a MacArthur "Genius," a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to tame its waters Asia's history has been shaped by her waters. In Unruly …
Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia
Migration is at the heart of Asian history. For centuries migrants have tracked the routes and seas of their ancestors - merchants, pilgrims, soldiers and sailors - along the Silk …
Unruly Waters
'An enthralling, elegantly written and, ultimately, profoundly alarming history' EconomistA bold new perspective on the history of South Asia, telling its story through its …
Reading from the South
Isabel Hofmeyr is one of the world’s leading scholars on African print cultures, postcolonial literary histories, Indian Ocean studies and the oceanic humanities. For four decades …
Crossing the Bay of Bengal
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 …
The Burning Earth: A History
Ever since innovations in agriculture vastly expanded production of food, our remarkable achievements in reshaping nature have allowed billions of humans to exist and thrive. Yet …
Crossing the Bay of Bengal
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 …
Histories of Health in Southeast Asia
Health patterns in Southeast Asia have changed profoundly over the past century. In that period, epidemic and chronic diseases, environmental transformations, and international …