Book Description
Presents the life and career of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama focusing on a blend of the facts and legends around him.
Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 23,58 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521646291
Presents the life and career of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama focusing on a blend of the facts and legends around him.
Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Explorers
ISBN : 9788175960244
Author : Alvaro Velho
Publisher : London : Printed for the Hakluyt society
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0470672919
Featuring updates and revisions that reflect recent historiography, this new edition of The Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500-1700 presents a comprehensive overview of Portuguese imperial history that considers Asian and European perspectives. Features an argument-driven history with a clear chronological structure Considers the latest developments in English, French, and Portuguese historiography Offers a balanced view in a divisive area of historical study Includes updated Glossary and Guide to Further Reading
Author : Katharine Bailey
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,61 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780778724216
For ages 8-14. This exciting book tells the story of the relentless and at times tyrannical explorer Vasco da Gama who helped Portugal search for a trade route to the lucrative spice trade of the Far East. Discover his role in the development of Portuguese spice plantations in India and New World colonies, and his involvement in the slave trade of Africa.
Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,3 MB
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1839762403
A collection of essays that span many regions and cultures, by an award-winning historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a new kind of history - in his case, not longue durée or micro-history, but 'connected history': connected cross-culturally, and spanning regions, subjects and archives that are conventionally treated alone. Not a research paradigm, he insists, it is more of an oppositionswissenschaft, a way of trying to constantly break the moulds of historical objects. The essays collected here, some quite polemical - as in the lead text on the notion of India-as-civilization, or another, assessing such a literary totem as V. S. Naipaul - illustrate the breadth of Subrahmanyam's concerns, as well as the quality of his writing. Connected History considers what, exactly, is an empire, the rise of 'the West' (less of a place than an idea or ideology, he insists), Churchill and the Great Man theory of history, the reception of world literature and the itinerary of subaltern studies, in addition to personal recollections of life and work in Delhi, Paris and Lisbon, and concluding remarks on the practice of early-modern history and the framing of historical enquiry.
Author : Muzaffar Alam
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 15,29 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0231158114
Between the mid-sixteenth and early nineteenth century, the Mughal Empire was an Indo-Islamic dynasty that ruled as far as Bengal in the east and Kabul in the west, as high as Kashmir in the north and the Kaveri basin in the south. The Mughals constructed a sophisticated, complex system of government that facilitated an era of profound artistic and architectural achievement. They promoted the place of Persian culture in Indian society and set the groundwork for South Asia's future development. In this volume, two leading historians of early modern South Asia present nine major joint essays on the Mughal Empire, framed by an essential introductory reflection. Making creative use of materials written in Persian, Indian vernacular languages, and a variety of European languages, their chapters accomplish the most significant innovations in Mughal historiography in decades, intertwining political, cultural, and commercial themes while exploring diplomacy, state-formation, history-writing, religious debate, and political thought. Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam center on confrontations between different source materials that they then reconcile, enabling readers to participate in both the debate and resolution of competing claims. Their introduction discusses the comparative and historiographical approach of their work and its place within the literature on Mughal rule. Interdisciplinary and cutting-edge, this volume richly expands research on the Mughal state, early modern South Asia, and the comparative history of the Mughal, Ottoman, Safavid, and other early modern empires.
Author : Kingsley Garland Jayne
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Discoveries in geography
ISBN :
Author : Hugh Cagle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 22,9 MB
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1107196639
This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern world. It highlights little-known linkages between Asia and the Atlantic world.
Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,31 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1611680190
A study of individual trajectories in an early modern global context