Author: Tīpū Sulṭān (Mysore, Nawab.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Select letters of Tippoo Sultan to various public functionaries
Author: Tīpū Sulṭān (Mysore, Nawab.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Skilled Immigrants in the Textile and Fashion Industries
Author: Nazanin Hedayat MunroePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350273252
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
With contributions from leading experts, this edited collection presents original research on the skills brought by immigrant communities to the textile and fashion industries, from the early modern to postmodern periods in Asia and the Islamic World, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Manufacturing of textiles and apparel is arduous work, which historically depended on skilled artisans, inexpensive labor, and the introduction of labor-saving technology. Immigrant communities supplied much of the work force, bringing their own skill sets to new locations, leading to the development of new manufacturing centers and an increase in both production and technical expertise. Throughout the volume, the role of migration and immigrant involvement in manufacturing is also examined in relation to trade, politics, and socio-religious circumstances prompting relocation. Deconstructing the question of provenance by examining the cultural identity of migrant populations, the research brings to light ongoing dilemmas and practices of diaspora communities. By analyzing material, mythical, and technical aspects of textile and apparel production, contributors create a new narrative about textile- and garment-making as a collective endeavor, requiring diversity of skill and methodology to thrive.
The Antijacobin Review and True Churchman's Magazine
Author: The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine Or Monthly Political and Literary Censor
Author: The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature
Author: The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature
Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Contributions, Biographical, Literary, and Philosophical, to the Eclectic Review
Author: John FosterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The City and the Wilderness
Author: Arash KhazeniPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520289684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The City and the Wilderness recounts the journeys and microhistories of Indo-Persian travelers across the Indian Ocean and their encounters with the Burmese Kingdom and its littoral at the turn of the nineteenth century. As Mughal sovereignty waned under British colonial rule, Indo-Persian travelers and intermediaries linked to the East India Company explored and surveyed the Burmese Empire, inscribing it as a forest landscape and Buddhist kingdom at the crossroads of South and Southeast Asia. Based on colonial Persian travel books and narratives in which Indo-Persian knowledge and perceptions of the wondrous edges of the Indian Ocean merged with Orientalist pursuits, The City and the Wilderness uncovers fading histories of inter-Asian crossings and exchanges at the ends of the Mughal world.
Capitalisms
Author: Kaveh YazdaniPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199099251
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Conventional accounts often conceive the genesis of capitalism in Europe within the conjunctures of agricultural, commercial, and industrial revolutions. Challenging this widely believed cliché, this volume traces the history of capitalism across civilizations, tenth century onwards, and argues that capitalism was neither a monolithic entity nor exclusively an economic phenomenon confined to the West. Looking at regions as diverse as England, South America, Russia, North Africa, and East, South, West, and Southeast Asia, the book explores the plurality of developments across time and space. The chapters analyse aspects such as historical conjunctures, commodity production and distribution, circulation of knowledge and personnel, and the role of mercantile capital, small producers, and force—all the while stressing the necessity to think beyond present-day national boundaries. The book argues that the multiple histories of capitalism can be better understood from a trans-regional, intercontinental, and interconnected perspective.
A Great War in South India
Author: Ravi AhujaPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110640805
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
This book examines documents from the wars between the British colonial power and the South Indian regional power Mysore between 1766 and 1799. It transcribes and makes available for the first time the rich German documentation of a war that was as destructive as the Thirty Years War in Germany.