Reinterpreting Indian Ocean worlds : essays in honour of Kirti N. Chaudhuri / edited by Stefan C.A. Halikowski Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Stefan Halikowski.

Chaudhuri, K. N.

Dr. Craig Baxter Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commerce.

History.

Indian Ocean Region--History.

Indian Ocean Region.

Indian Ocean Region--Commerce--History.

Indian Ocean Region--Civilization.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xxii, 408 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.

Summary:

The Indian Ocean World was an idea borne out by researchers in economic history and trade in the 1980s in response to the compartmentalization of specific area studies within the wider rubric of Asian civilisations and culture. Professor Kirti N. Chaudhuri's books Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company (1978), and then Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean (1985), figured amongst the forefront of this new movement in historical thinking, undertaking detailed historical analysis, first of the English East India Company, and then a comparative cultural history of Asian material life and civilisation. Today, historians continue to hold on to the idea of an Indian Ocean world, although studies now follow a number of different threads, from themes like linguistics and creolization, to the seeds of national consciousness. By presenting a number of studies here, gathered into the themes of Intermixing,' "The World of Trade' and 'Colonial Paths,' it is hoped we can render tribute to one of the outstanding historians in this field and reflect the plenitude of current research in this subject area.

This volume comes about from conversations first held between ex-students of Professor Kirti N. Chaudhuri during the autumn of 2008. Sadly, one of the spiriti movens of this project, James Kaye, was tragically killed in a boating accident in February 2011. Many of the contributors to this volume, now in academic posts across Europe, were trained under K. N. Chaudhuri's wing at the European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy, where Chaudhuri held the prestigious Vasco da Gama Chair until his retirement in 2000. Other contributors met and were influenced by Chaudhuri's work during his long career of service to the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, England. This volume is a tribute to Chaudhuri's enduring intellectual legacy over the fields of Imperial History and Asian Studies, and a gesture of thanks to the brilliant conversation and personal warmth he repeatedly shared us with. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Intermixing

Chapter 1 Early Portuguese Emigration to the Ethiopian Highlands: Geopolitics, Missions and Metissage / Andreu Martinez D'Alòs-Moner D'Alòs-Moner, Andreu Martinez 2

Chapter 2 Seeking the Lost Tribes of Israel / Tudor Parfitt Parfitt, Tudor 33

Chapter 3 Nagasaki: A Christian Port in the Land of the Rising Sun / João Paulo Oliveira e Costa Costa, João Paulo Oliveira e 51

Chapter 4 The Cartographic Flight of the Parrots / Francesc Relaño Relaño, Francesc 62

Part II The World of Trade

Chapter 5 The Expansion of Cotton Textile Production in the Western Indian Ocean, c. 1500-C.1850 / William Gervase Clarence-Smith Clarence-Smith, William Gervase 84

Chapter 6 Eastern Indonesia: A Study of the Intersection of Global, Regional and Local Networks in the 'Extended' Indian Ocean / Leonard Y. Andaya Andaya, Leonard Y. 107

Chapter 7 Changing Economic Patterns in the Indian Ocean: Effects on Sri Lankan Culture / Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya Jayasuriya, Shihan de Silva 141

Chapter 8 A List of Spices Known and Used in Europe during the Sixteenth Century, Their Provenance, Common Names and Ascriptions / Stefan C. A. Halikowski Smith Smith, Stefan C. A. Halikowski 155

Part III Colonial Paths

Chapter 9 "The Most Revered and Feared King': The Construction of the Public Image of the Viceroys of the Portuguese State of India, c. 1700-1750 / João Vicente Melo Melo, João Vicente 232

Chapter 10 Jesuit Art in Goa between 1542 and 1655: From Modo Nostro to Modo Goano / Cristina Osswald Osswald, Cristina 255

Chapter 11 Islands in the Indian Ocean World in the Early Modern Period / Malyn Newitt Newitt, Malyn 287

Chapter 12 Portuguese Colonial Charity: The Misericórdias of Goa, Bahia and Macao Isabel dos Guimarães Sa 314

Chapter 13 'Floating' European Clergy in Siam during the Years Immediately Prior to the National Revolution of 1688: The Letters of Giovan Battista / Morelli, O.F.M O.F.M, Morelli,, Stefan C. A. Halikowski Smith Smith, Stefan C. A. Halikowski 336.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-380) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dr. Craig Baxter Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1443829315

9781443829311

OCLC:

710890453

Publisher Number:

99947629877