Vanguards of globalization : port-cities from the classical to the modern / edited by Rila Mukherjee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mukherjee, Rila, editor.

Series:

Issues in history

Issues in history.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Port cities.

Harbors.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

xvii, 425 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Port-cities from the classical to the modern

Place of Publication:

Delhi, India : Primus Books 2014.

Summary:

"Looks at the historical evolution of port-cirites from emporion to gateway and interrogates their nature over time. This volume studies specific port-cities such as Barbarikon, Chaul, Porto Novo, Madras, Nagasaki, and Sitangkai, and more generally the ports around the Erythaean sea, the Indian ocean and the Atlantic, Portuguese, Andhra, Bengal and Vietnamese coasts. Celebrates the hybridity and cosmopolitanism that port-cities offer and discusses the wider implications of cross-cultural competition, port-hinterland dynamics as well as themes, problems and textual evidence about port-cities and how they link to ports today."--Book Jacket.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789380607948

9380607946

OCLC:

878600742