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New Books in the Indian Ocean World
Debjani Bhattacharyya, “Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Debjani Bhattacharyya
Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta
The Making of Calcutta
Cambridge University Press, 2019

NBN Special SeriesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books in the Indian Ocean World September 21, 2020 Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi

Debjani Bhattacharyya’s Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta (Cambridge University Press) asks: What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world’s largest tidal delta? This history of dramatic ecological changes in the Bengal Delta from 1760 to 1920... Read More
Omar H. Ali, “Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery across the Indian Ocean” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Omar H. Ali
Malik Ambar
Power and Slavery across the Indian Ocean
Oxford University Press, 2016

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books in the Indian Ocean World September 17, 2020 Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi

Omar H. Ali’s Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery across the Indian Ocean (Oxford University Press, 2016), provides insight into the life of slave soldier Malik Ambar. It offers a rare look at an individual who began in obscurity in the Horn of Africa and reached the highest levels of South... Read More
Thomas R. Metcalf, “Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920” (U California Press, 2008)
Thomas R. Metcalf
Imperial Connections
India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920
University of California Press Books, 2008

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books in the Indian Ocean WorldNew Books in World Affairs September 14, 2020 Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi

Thomas R. Metcalf’s Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920 (University of California Press) is an innovative remapping of empire. Imperial Connections offers a broad-ranging view of the workings of the British Empire in the period when the India of the Raj stood at the center of a... Read More
Kris Alexanderson, “Subversive Seas: Anticolonial Networks across the Twentieth-Century Dutch Empire” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Kris Alexanderson
Subversive Seas
Anticolonial Networks across the Twentieth-Century Dutch Empire
Cambridge University Press, 2019

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books in the Indian Ocean WorldNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network September 14, 2020 Michael G. Vann

In Subversive Seas: Anticolonial Networks across the Twentieth-Century Dutch Empire (Cambridge UP, 2019), Kris Alexanderson offers a revealing portrait of the Dutch Empire repositions our understanding of modern empires from the terrestrial to the oceanic. It highlights the importance of shipping, port cities, and maritime culture to the political struggles... Read More
Sana Aiyar, “Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Sana Aiyar
Indians in Kenya
The Politics of Diaspora
Harvard University Press, 2015

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books in the Indian Ocean WorldNew Books in World Affairs September 10, 2020 Micheal Rumore and Ahmed AlMaazmi

In Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora (Harvard University Press, 2015), Sana Aiyer investigates how Indian diasporic actors influenced the course of Kenya’s political history, from partnering with Europeans in their colonial mission in East Africa to political solidarity with Africans in their anticolonial struggles. Working as merchants, skilled tradesmen,... Read More
Ananya Chakravarti, “The Empire of Apostles” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Ananya Chakravarti
The Empire of Apostles
Religion, Accommodatio and The Imagination of Empire in Modern Brazil and India
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in the Indian Ocean World September 7, 2020 Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi

Ananya Chakravarti’s The Empire of Apostles: Religion, Accommodatio and The Imagination of Empire in Modern Brazil and India (Oxford University Press), recovers the religious roots of Europe’s first global order, by tracing the evolution of a religious vision of empire through the lives of Jesuits working in the missions of... Read More
Behnaz A. Mirzai, “A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929” (U Texas Press, 2017)
Behnaz A. Mirzai
A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929

University of Texas Press, 2017

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the Indian Ocean WorldNew Books Network September 3, 2020 Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi and Robyn Morse

Behnaz A. Mirzai’s book A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929 (University of Texas Press, 2017) contributes to the growing field of slavery in the Middle East is a growing field of study, but the history of slavery in a key country, Iran, has never before been written.... Read More
Nathalie Peutz, “Islands of Heritage Conservation and Transformation in Yemen” (Stanford UP, 2018)
Nathalie Peutz
Islands of Heritage Conservation and Transformation in Yemen

Stanford University Press, 2018

NBN Special SeriesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in the Indian Ocean World August 31, 2020 Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi

Soqotra, the largest island of Yemen’s Soqotra Archipelago, is one of the most uniquely diverse places in the world. A UNESCO natural World Heritage Site, the island is home not only to birds, reptiles, and plants found nowhere else on earth, but also to a rich cultural history and the... Read More
Hideaki Suzuki, “Slave Trade Profiteers in the Western Indian Ocean: Suppression and Resistance in the 19th Century” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Hideaki Suzuki
Slave Trade Profiteers in the Western Indian Ocean
Suppression and Resistance in the 19th Century
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the Indian Ocean WorldNew Books Network August 27, 2020 Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi and Robyn Morse

Hideaki Suzuki’s book Slave Trade Profiteers in the Western Indian Ocean: Suppression and Resistance in the Nineteenth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) provides an insightful perspective to the growing scholarship on Indian Ocean slavery by shifting focus onto those who profited from the slave trade. He examines the ways in which slave... Read More
Renisa Mawani, “Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire” (Duke UP, 2018)
Renisa Mawani
Across Oceans of Law
The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire
Duke University Press, 2018

NBN Special SeriesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the Indian Ocean WorldNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network August 24, 2020 Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi

Renisa Mawani’s Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire (Duke University Press), take us to 1914, when the British-built and Japanese-owned steamship Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Chartered by railway contractor and purported rubber planter Gurdit Singh,... Read More

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