Cambridge Oceanic Histories – serie
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25 produkter
On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World
A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890
Inbunden, 2022
1297 kr
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This is the first interdisciplinary history of Lake Tanganyika and of eastern Africa's relationship with the wider Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth century. Philip Gooding deploys diverse source materials, including oral, climatological, anthropological, and archaeological sources, to …
On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World
A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890
Häftad, 2025
519 kr
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This is the first interdisciplinary history of Lake Tanganyika and of eastern Africa's relationship with the wider Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth century. Philip Gooding deploys diverse source materials, including oral, climatological, anthropological, and archaeological sources, to …
The Gods of the Sea
Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c.1600-2019
Av Fynn Holm
Inbunden, 2023
1640 kr
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Japan is often imagined as a nation with a long history of whaling. In this innovative new study, Fynn Holm argues that for centuries some regions in early modern Japan did not engage in whaling. In fact, they were actively opposed to it, even resorting to violence when whales were killed. …
The Gods of the Sea
Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c.1600-2019
Av Fynn Holm
Häftad, 2025
519 kr
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Japan is often imagined as a nation with a long history of whaling. In this innovative new study, Fynn Holm argues that for centuries some regions in early modern Japan did not engage in whaling. In fact, they were actively opposed to it, even resorting to violence when whales were killed. …
Mooring the Global Archive
A Japanese Ship and its Migrant Histories
Inbunden, 2023
1358 kr
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Martin Dusinberre follows the Yamashiro-maru steamship across Asian and Pacific waters in an innovative history of Japan's engagement with the outside world in the late-nineteenth century. His compelling in-depth analysis reconstructs the lives of some of the thousands of male and female migrants …
Mooring the Global Archive
A Japanese Ship and its Migrant Histories
Häftad, 2023
499 kr
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Martin Dusinberre follows the Yamashiro-maru steamship across Asian and Pacific waters in an innovative history of Japan's engagement with the outside world in the late-nineteenth century. His compelling in-depth analysis reconstructs the lives of some of the thousands of male and female migrants …
Mobile Manuscripts
Arabic Learning across the Early Modern Western Indian Ocean
Inbunden, 2025
1693 kr
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In this essential new work, Christopher D. Bahl departs from the established historiography on trade, shipping, and pilgrimage to argue for the emergence of Arabic learning as a crucial form of transoceanic mobility from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. From Egypt to the Hijaz, Yemen and …
Encroaching Sea
Nature, Sovereignty and Development at the Edge of British India 1860–1950
Inbunden, 2024
1526 kr
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Ecological and political instability have time and again emerged as catalysts for risky development projects along India's south-west coastline. Devika Shankar probes this complicated relationship between crisis and development through a focus on a port development project executed in Cochin in the …
The Kuroshio Frontier
Empire and Environment in the Making of Japan's Pacific
Inbunden, 2025
1610 kr
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This big-picture narrative of modern Japan embeds the archipelago's history in its maritime context. Foregrounding the Kuroshio Current in the Pacific, Jonas Rüegg demonstrates how currents, winds, and animals created a dynamic context to economic, intellectual, and geopolitical reinventions of …
Itinerant Belonging
Intimate Histories of Indian Ocean Capitalism
Av Ketaki Pant
Inbunden, 2025
1526 kr
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Along the coast of Gujarat, nineteenth-century merchant houses or havelis still stand in historic cities, connecting ports from Durban to Rangoon. In this ambitious and multifaceted work, Ketaki Pant uses these old spaces as a lens through which to view not only the vibrant stories of their …
All the Seas Were Ink
Islamic Constitutionalism in Motion
Inbunden, 2026
530 kr
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In this innovative history of the travels of law, Iza R. Hussin explores how law moves, what happens when it arrives, and how it gains its onward momentum and direction. Through the itineraries of Abu Bakar, Sultan of Johor (1833-1895), Hussin uncovers a world of sovereigns in the shadow of empire, …
Earth's Amphibious Transformation
The History and Present of the Oceanic Anthropocene
Inbunden, 2026
1861 kr
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In the first history of the oceanic Anthropocene, Stefan Huebner explores the twentieth-century extension of human habitats into oceanic spaces. He shows how the effects of this amphibious transformation have followed a very different trajectory from human-driven change on land, in terms of both …
Earth's Amphibious Transformation
The History and Present of the Oceanic Anthropocene
Häftad, 2026
687 kr
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In the first history of the oceanic Anthropocene, Stefan Huebner explores the twentieth-century extension of human habitats into oceanic spaces. He shows how the effects of this amphibious transformation have followed a very different trajectory from human-driven change on land, in terms of both …
Oceanic Histories
Av David Armitage, Alison Bashford m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1693 kr
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Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but viewed through the 70% of the Earth's surface covered by water. Leading historians trace the history of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans and seas, from the Arctic and the Baltic to the South …
Monsoon Islam
Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast
Inbunden, 2018
1920 kr
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Between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, a distinct form of Islamic thought and practice developed among Muslim trading communities of the Indian Ocean. Sebastian R. Prange argues that this 'Monsoon Islam' was shaped by merchants not sultans, forged by commercial imperatives rather than in …
The Blue Frontier
Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire
Av Ronald C. Po
Inbunden, 2018
1677 kr
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In this revisionist history of the eighteenth-century Qing Empire from a maritime perspective, Ronald C. Po argues that it is reductive to view China over this period exclusively as a continental power with little interest in the sea. With a coastline of almost 14,500 kilometers, the Qing was not a …
Oceanic Histories
Av David Armitage, Alison Bashford m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
452 kr
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Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but viewed through the 70% of the Earth's surface covered by water. Leading historians trace the history of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans and seas, from the Arctic and the Baltic to the South …
Monsoon Islam
Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast
Häftad, 2019
687 kr
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Between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, a distinct form of Islamic thought and practice developed among Muslim trading communities of the Indian Ocean. Sebastian R. Prange argues that this 'Monsoon Islam' was shaped by merchants not sultans, forged by commercial imperatives rather than in …
The Blue Frontier
Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire
Av Ronald C. Po
Häftad, 2019
653 kr
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In this revisionist history of the eighteenth-century Qing Empire from a maritime perspective, Ronald C. Po argues that it is reductive to view China over this period exclusively as a continental power with little interest in the sea. With a coastline of almost 14,500 kilometers, the Qing was not a …
Piratical States
British Imperialism in the Indian Ocean World, c.1780-1850
Av Simon Layton
Inbunden, 2026
1623 kr
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This deeply researched, innovative study demystifies the way we think about the pirates of world history. Simon Layton encourages readers to look beyond eighteenth-century Atlantic paradigms of rogue individuals or revolutionary collectives, placing piracy as a concept at the heart of the British …
Japan's Ocean Borderlands
Nature and Sovereignty
Inbunden, 2023
1640 kr
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Desert islands are the focus of intense geopolitical tensions in East Asia today, but they are also sites of nature conservation. In this global environmental history, Paul Kreitman shows how the politics of conservation have entangled with the politics of sovereignty since the emergence of the …
In a Sea of Empires
Networks and Crossings in the Revolutionary Caribbean
Av Jeppe Mulich
Inbunden, 2020
1677 kr
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At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Caribbean was rife with revolutionary fervor and political turmoil. Yet, with such upheaval came unparalleled opportunities. In this innovative and richly detailed study, Jeppe Mulich explores the interconnected nature of imperial politics and colonial law …
Japan's Ocean Borderlands
Nature and Sovereignty
Häftad, 2025
479 kr
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Desert islands are the focus of intense geopolitical tensions in East Asia today, but they are also sites of nature conservation. In this global environmental history, Paul Kreitman shows how the politics of conservation have entangled with the politics of sovereignty since the emergence of the …
In a Sea of Empires
Networks and Crossings in the Revolutionary Caribbean
Av Jeppe Mulich
Häftad, 2022
468 kr
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At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Caribbean was rife with revolutionary fervor and political turmoil. Yet, with such upheaval came unparalleled opportunities. In this innovative and richly detailed study, Jeppe Mulich explores the interconnected nature of imperial politics and colonial law …
An Ocean of Rumours
News and Information in the Atlantic World
Inbunden, 2026
1362 kr
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Across the early modern Atlantic world, there were commodities just as valuable as sugar, tobacco or cotton: news and information. However, crossing an ocean beset by wars, pirates and bad weather made transoceanic communications irregular at best, posing significant challenges to the weekly …
