| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 370 pages) : map |
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data file rda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 05, 2018). |
| Summary |
Presenting new evidence, new theoretical approaches, and new arguments, this volume aims to change understandings of the Gulf in the world. |
| Contents |
Introduction: world history in the Gulf as a gulf in world history / Allen James Fromherz -- The cosmopolitan figure as ethical exemplar: notes from a tenth-century Gulf encyclopedia / Richard McGregor -- The Gulf: a cosmopolitan mobile society--Hormuz, 1475-1515 CE / Valeria Piacentini Fiorani -- From Jerusalem to the Karun: what can Mandaean geographies tell us? / Charles Haberl -- Merchant communities and cross-cultural trade between Gujarat and the Gulf in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Ghulam A. Nadri -- The Banians of Muscat: a South Asian merchant community in Oman and the Gulf, C. 1500-1700 / Abdulrahman al Salimi -- Khaliji Hindustan: towards a diasporic history of Khalijis in South Asia from the 1780s to the 1960s / Johan Mathew -- Africans and the Gulf: between diaspora and cosmopolitanism / Matthew S. Hopper -- East Africa, the global Gulf and the new thassology of the Indian Ocean / Mark Horton -- Astrology as a node of connectivity between the pre-modern Mediterranean and Gulf / Michael A. Ryan -- Ships of the Gulf: shifting names and networks / Eric Staples -- The role of Indian Ocean trade inland: the Buraimi Oasis / Timothy Power -- Pearl fishing and globalisation: from the neolithic to the twentieth century CE / Robert Carter -- An archaeology of glass and international trade in the Gulf / Carolyn M. Swan -- From history to heritage: the Arabian incense burner / Willilam G. Zimmerle -- Doha's Msheireb heritage house museums: a discussion of memory, history and the Indian Ocean world / Karen Exell -- Omani identity amid the old crisis / Lamya Harub. |
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Persian Gulf States -- History.
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Persian Gulf Region -- History.
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Persian Gulf States -- Foreign relations.
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Persian Gulf Region -- Foreign relations.
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HISTORY / Middle East / General.
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General.
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Diplomatic relations. (OCoLC)fst01907412
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Persian Gulf Region. (OCoLC)fst01244349
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Persian Gulf States. (OCoLC)fst01244350
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Fromherz, Allen James, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1474430651 9781474430654 (OCoLC)1026276281 |
| ISBN |
9781474430678 (electronic book) |
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1474430678 (electronic book) |
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