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Author: William Crooke Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1317187423 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 448
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Composed in the form of letters and first published in 1698. This volume, edited with notes and an introduction, contains Letters I-III. Continued in Second Series 20 and 39. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1909.
Author: John Fryer Publisher: ISBN: Category : India Languages : en Pages : 390
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Describes the cities of Surat and Bombay, the life and trade there, as well as at Madras; includes an account of the struggle of the Maharattas under Sivaji to resist absorption into Aurangzib's empire, an analysis of the political state of the kingdom of Bijapur, and information about natural science. The Persian portion of the book recounts the eighteen-month sojurn the author spent in southern Persia and Isphahan in 1677-78.
Author: Peter Good Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350152293 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 224
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In 1747, the city of Kerman in Persia burned amidst chaos, destruction and death perpetrated by the city's own overlord, Nader Shah. After the violent overthrow of the Safavid dynasty in 1722 and subsequent foreign invasions from all sides, Persia had been in constant turmoil. One well-appointed house that belonged to the East India Company had been saved from destruction by the ingenuity of a Company servant, Danvers Graves, and his knowledge of the Company's privileges in Persia. This book explores the lived experience of the Company and its trade in Persia and how it interacted with power structures and the local environment in a time of great upheaval in Persian history. Using East India Company records and other sources, it charts the role of the Navy and commercial fleet in the Gulf, trade agreements, and the experience of Company staff, British and non-British living in and navigating conditions in 18th-century Persia. By examining the social, commercial and diplomatic history of this relationship, this book creates a new paradigm for the study of Early Modern interactions in the Indian Ocean.
Author: Christian Windler Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0755649370 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 409
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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Isfahan, the capital of the Safavid Empire, hosted Catholic missionaries of more diverse affiliations than most other cities in Asia. Attracted by the hope of converting the Shah, the missionaries acted as diplomatic agents for Catholic rulers, hosts to Protestant merchants, and healers of Armenians and Muslims. Through such niche activities they gained social acceptance locally. This book examines the activities of Discalced Carmelites and other missionaries, revealing the flexibility they demonstrated in dealing with cultural diversity, a common feature of missionary activity throughout emerging global Catholicism. While missions all over the world were central to the self-fashioning of the Counter-Reformation Church, clerics who set out to win over souls for the true religion turned into local actors who built reputations by defining their social roles in accordance with the expectations of their host society. Such practices fed controversies that were fought out in newly emerging public spaces. Responding to the threat this posed to its authority, the Roman Curia initiated a process of doctrinal disambiguation and centralization which culminated in the nineteenth century. Using the missions to Safavid Iran as a case study for a global history on a small scale, the book creates a new paradigm for the study of global Catholicism.
Author: John Fryer
Author: John Fryer
Author: William Crooke
Author: John Fryer
Author: John Fryer
Author: John Fryer
Author: Peter Good
Author: K. N. Chaudhuri
Author: Henry Smith Williams
Author: John Malcolm
Author: Christian Windler