Author: Sind (Pakistan). Customs DeptPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Report on the Maritime Trade of the Province of Sind
Author: Sind (Pakistan). Customs DeptPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Report on the Maritime Trade of Bengal
Author: Bengal (India). Customs DeptPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Report on the Maritime Trade and Customs Administration of Burma for the Official Year ...
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Catalogue of Current Periodicals Received at the Public Library of Victoria
Author: Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery (Vic.)Publisher:
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Category : Australian periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Report
Author: Commonwealth Shipping CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
Board of Trade Journal of Tariff and Trade Notices and Miscellaneous Commercial Information
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
Book Description
The Calcutta Gazette
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1326
Book Description
Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Report on the Administration of the Province of Assam
Author: Assam (India)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Crossing the Bay of Bengal
Author: Sunil S. AmrithPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674728475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Indian Ocean was global long before the Atlantic, and today the countries bordering the Bay of Bengal—India, Bangladesh, Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Malaysia—are home to one in four people on Earth. Crossing the Bay of Bengal places this region at the heart of world history for the first time. Integrating human and environmental history, and mining a wealth of sources, Sunil Amrith gives a revelatory and stirring new account of the Bay and those who have inhabited it. For centuries the Bay of Bengal served as a maritime highway between India and China, and then as a battleground for European empires, all while being shaped by the monsoons and by human migration. Imperial powers in the nineteenth century, abetted by the force of capital and the power of steam, reconfigured the Bay in their quest for coffee, rice, and rubber. Millions of Indian migrants crossed the sea, bound by debt or spurred by drought, and filled with ambition. Booming port cities like Singapore and Penang became the most culturally diverse societies of their time. By the 1930s, however, economic, political, and environmental pressures began to erode the Bay’s centuries-old patterns of interconnection. Today, rising waters leave the Bay of Bengal’s shores especially vulnerable to climate change, at the same time that its location makes it central to struggles over Asia’s future. Amrith’s evocative and compelling narrative of the region’s pasts offers insights critical to understanding and confronting the many challenges facing Asia in the decades ahead.
