Networks in the first global age, 1400-1800
Material type: TextSeries: Indian Council of Historical Research monograph seriesPublication details: New Delhi : Primus books 2011Description: xxx, 380 p. ill., mapsISBN: 9789380607092; 9380607091Subject(s): Navigation | Economic historyDDC classification: 330.904 Summary: Contributed articles.Summary: The dynamics of the maritime world has held the fascination of researchers and scholars of history for long. Viewing the waterscapes as conduits of much economic and cultural sharing between peoples and lands, the focus of Networks in the First Global Age: 1400-1800 is on the oceans and seas--the Indian, the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea--and economic, military and cultural transmissions within and across them. The book shows how conventional arguments in history writing about the rise of theWest, the hegemon of the State and the might of overseas colonial empires can beoverturned by emphasizing on dynamic, collaborative, nonlinear networks as opposed toformal networks based on hierarchy. Such networks signal a completely different pictureabout global interactions in the period 1400-1800, emphasizing the centrality of peoples andcommodities at different times in different parts of the world. More importantly, the bookchallenges chronological readings and urges us to think spatially instead.With contributions from Indian, American, French and Iberian scholars, Networks in the First Global Age: 1400-1800 tells us what happens when the sea of history meets the sea ofnetwork analysis.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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330.9 MAM/E Economic and commercial geography | 330.9 MOH/C The chronicle of financial turmoil | 330.9 WOO/E Economic geography | 330.904 NET Networks in the first global age, 1400-1800 | 330.905 11 BER/O On the Brink of deglobalization | 330.905 11 FIN The financial crisis and developing countries : | 330.905 11 GLO.1 Global financial crisis |
Contributed articles.
The dynamics of the maritime world has held the fascination of researchers and scholars of history for long. Viewing the waterscapes as conduits of much economic and cultural sharing between peoples and lands, the focus of Networks in the First Global Age: 1400-1800 is on the oceans and seas--the Indian, the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea--and economic, military and cultural transmissions within and across them. The book shows how conventional arguments in history writing about the rise of theWest, the hegemon of the State and the might of overseas colonial empires can beoverturned by emphasizing on dynamic, collaborative, nonlinear networks as opposed toformal networks based on hierarchy. Such networks signal a completely different pictureabout global interactions in the period 1400-1800, emphasizing the centrality of peoples andcommodities at different times in different parts of the world. More importantly, the bookchallenges chronological readings and urges us to think spatially instead.With contributions from Indian, American, French and Iberian scholars, Networks in the First Global Age: 1400-1800 tells us what happens when the sea of history meets the sea ofnetwork analysis.
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