The Making of the Indo-Islamic World - Couverture souple

Wink, Andre

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108405657 ISBN 13 : 9781108405652

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

In a new accessible narrative, Andre Wink presents his major reinterpretation of the long-term history of India and the Indian Ocean region from the perspective of world history and geography. Situating the history of the Indianized territories of South Asia and Southeast Asia within the wider history of the Islamic world, he argues that the long-term development and transformation of Indo-Islamic history is best understood as the outcome of a major shift in the relationship between the sedentary peasant societies of the river plains, the nomads of the great Saharasian arid zone and the seafaring populations of the Indian Ocean. This revisionist work redraws the Asian past as the outcome of the fusion of these different types of settled and mobile societies, placing geography and environment at the centre of human history.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

André Wink is H. Kern Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a leading scholar of Indian and Islamic history and is the author of numerous books and articles, including Land and Sovereignty in India, Al-Hind and Akbar.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108405657
• ISBN 13: 9781108405652
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 310
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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