Transregional Trade and Traders: Situating Gujarat in the Indian Ocean from Early Times to 1900
Edward A. Alpers, Chhaya Goswami
This book demonstrates the central position of Gujarat in the historical trading economy of the Indian Ocean World. Over a period of two thousand years, Gujarati traders exchanged commodities with maritime merchants from Africa, Arabia, Southeast Asia, China, and Europe. The fifteen chapters in the book reflect this global history in sections organized under the headings of 'Historiography, Method, Sources' , 'Commodities', and 'Trading Networks andDiasporas'.
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Year:
2019
Edition:
Illustrated
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
364
ISBN 10:
0199490686
ISBN 13:
9780199490684
File:
PDF, 3.17 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2019