A Hundred Horizons

The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire

Sugata Bose

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$24.50 • £19.95 • €22.00

ISBN 9780674032194

Publication Date: 06/15/2009

Short

352 pages

5-3/16 x 7-15/16 inches

22 halftones, 1 map

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Preface
1. Space and Time on the Indian Ocean Rim
2. The Gulf between Precolonial and Colonial Empires
3. Flows of Capitalists, Laborers, and Commodities
4. Waging War for King and Country
5. Expatriate Patriots: Anticolonial Imagination and Action
6. Pilgrims’ Progress under Colonial Rules
7. A Different Universalism? Oceanic Voyages of a Poet as Pilgrim
Conclusion: The Indian Ocean Arena in the History of Globalization
Notes
Index

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