Author: John FryerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. and Finished 1681
Author: John FryerThe Travels of Peter Mundy in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667
Author: Peter MundyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667
Author: Lt. Col. Sir Richard Carnac TemplePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317013158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
From the Rawlinson MS. A. 315 in the Bodleian Library, with facsimile of original t.-p.: Itinerarium mundi, that is A memoriall or sundry relations of certain voiages,journeies ettc. ... By: Peter Mundy. With an appendix of extracts from the writings of seventeenth-century travellers to the Levant. Continued in Second Series 35, 45, 46, 55, and 78. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1907.
Journal of the Travels and Labours of Father Samuel Fritz in the River of the Amazons Between 1686 and 1723
Author: Samuel FritzFrom the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean
Author: Sebouh David AslanianPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520282175
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire. Based in New Julfa, Isfahan, in what is now Iran, these merchants operated a network of commercial settlements that stretched from London and Amsterdam to Manila and Acapulco. The New Julfan Armenians were the only Eurasian community that was able to operate simultaneously and successfully in all the major empires of the early modern world—both land-based Asian empires and the emerging sea-borne empires—astonishingly without the benefits of an imperial network and state that accompanied and facilitated European mercantile expansion during the same period. This book brings to light for the first time the trans-imperial cosmopolitan world of the New Julfans. Among other topics, it explores the effects of long distance trade on the organization of community life, the ethos of trust and cooperation that existed among merchants, and the importance of information networks and communication in the operation of early modern mercantile communities.
Time and Temporalities in European Travel Writing
Author: Paula HenriksonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000289699
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This book is a collective effort to investigate and problematise notions of time and temporality in European travel writing from the late medieval period up to the late nineteenth century. It brings together nine researchers in European travel writing and covers a wide range of areas, travel genres, and languages, coherently integrated around the central theme of time and temporalities. Taken together, the contributions consider how temporal aspects evolve and change in regard to spatial, historical, and literary contexts. In a chapter-by-chapter account this volume thus offers various case studies that address the issue of temporality by showing, for example, how time is inscribed in landscape, how travellers’ encounters with other temporalities informed other disciplines; it interrogates the idea of "cultural temporalities" in regard to a tension between past and future, passivity and progression; and focuses on how time is entangled in identity construction proper to travelogues.
The Company-State
Author: Philip J. SternPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199930368
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
The Company-State offers a political and intellectual history of the English East India Company in the century before its acquisition of territorial power. It argues the Company was no mere merchant, but a form of early modern, colonial state and sovereign that laid the foundations for the British Empire in India.
The Life of the Icelander Jón Ólafsson, Traveller to India, Written by Himself and Completed about 1661 A.D.
Author: Bertha S. PhillpottsPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317025512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Translated from the Icelandic edition of Sigfús Blöndal and edited by the translator. The volume covers his life and travels, 1593-1622, in Iceland, England, Denmark, White Sea, Faroes, Spitzbergen, Norway. Continued, with new editors, in Second Series 68. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1923. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce Wije's View of Copenhagen in 1611 which appeared in the first edition of the work.
Iran and The West
Author: Cyrus GhaniPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136144668
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
First Published in 1987, this volume offers a bibliography of biographies, autobiographies and books on contemporary politics by prominent 20th century figures on the topic of Iran.
The British Cotton Trade, 1660-1815 Vol 1
Author: Beverly LemirePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000559505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
First published in 2010. Cotton was the first industrialized global trade. This four-volume reset edition charts the rise of British trade in cotton from the days of small-scale trading between the Middle East and India to the domination of British-led industrialized manufacture. Part contains ‘Early Years of Trade and British Response to Indian Cottons to the late 1600s’.