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Author | : Sandy Prita Meier |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2016-04-25 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0253019176 |
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On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean. Prita Meier explores this coastal environment and shows how an African mercantile society created a place of cosmopolitan longing. Meier understands architecture as more than a way to remake local space. Rather, the architecture of this liminal zone was an expression of the desire of coastal inhabitants to belong to places beyond their homeports. Here architecture embodies modern ideas and social identities engendered by the encounter of Africans with others in the Indian Ocean world.
Author | : Michael N. Pearson |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 1998-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801856922 |
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Over many centuries, the Swahili coast of East Africa had intricate connections with India, with the Islamic world and with the peoples of the the interior. There was major economic, social and religious interchange. The intrusion of the Portuguese in the 16th century was merely the latest of many foreign influences. This study in world history examines a particular time and place to show the diversity and complexity of cultural and economic contacts.
Author | : Michael N. Pearson |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801872426 |
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Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title In Port Cities and Intruders, historian Michael Pearson explores the role of port cities and their orientation, relations between the coast and the interior, the place of the coast in the world economy, and the impact of the Portuguese in the early modern period.
Author | : Prita Meier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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The multiauthored book accompanying the World on the Horizon exhibition organized by Krannert Art Museum is the first interdisciplinary study of Swahili visual arts and their historically deep and enduring connections to eastern and central Africa, the port towns of the western Indian Ocean, Europe, and the United States. At once exhibition catalogue and scholarly inquiry, the publication features eighteen essays in a mix of formats - personal reflections, object biographies, as well as more in-depth critical treatments - and includes never before published images of works from the National Museums of Kenya and Bait Al Zubair Museum in Oman. By approaching the east African coast as a vibrant arena of global cultural convergence, these essays offer compelling new perspectives on the situated yet mobile and deeply networked social lives of Swahili objects. Moving between the broader structural relations of political economic change to more intimate narratives through which such change is experienced, the essays throw light on the ways in which the material fabric of the arts structure Swahili people's sense of self and community in an ever-changing world of oceanic and terrestrial movement.
Author | : Michael N. Pearson |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2002-10-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801870283 |
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Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title In Port Cities and Intruders, historian Michael Pearson explores the role of port cities and their orientation, relations between the coast and the interior, the place of the coast in the world economy, and the impact of the Portuguese in the early modern period.
Author | : Adrian Green |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2018-12-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 135157180X |
Download Cities in the World: 1500-2000: v. 3 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Papers presented at the Cities in the World conference held at Southampton University and organised through the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology challenged the commonly held perception that cities are about the present and the future, not about the past. All cities have an innate sense of the past, and this volume, encompassing as it does
Author | : Liam Matthew Brockey |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780754663133 |
Download Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World is a collection of essays on the cities of the Portuguese empire written by the leading scholars in the field. The volume, like the empire it analyzes, has a global scope and a chronological span of three centuries. The contributions focus on the social, political, and economic aspects of city life in settlements as far apart as Rio de Janeiro, Mozambique Island, and Nagasaki. As well as sparking further comparisons between cities found within the Portuguese empire, this collection also raises important issues that will be of interest to historians of other European empires, as well as urban historians generally.
Author | : Gitti Salami |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 2013-10-22 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1118515056 |
Download A Companion to Modern African Art Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Offering a wealth of perspectives on African modern and Modernist art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, this new Companion features essays by African, European, and North American authors who assess the work of individual artists as well as exploring broader themes such as discoveries of new technologies and globalization. A pioneering continent-based assessment of modern art and modernity across Africa Includes original and previously unpublished fieldwork-based material Features new and complex theoretical arguments about the nature of modernity and Modernism Addresses a widely acknowledged gap in the literature on African Art
Author | : André Wink |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2003-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 904740274X |
Download Al-Hind, Volume 3 Indo-Islamic Society, 14th-15th Centuries Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This third volume of Andre Wink's acclaimed and pioneering Al-Hind:The Making of the Indo-Islamic World takes the reader from the late Mongol invasions to the end of the medieval period and the beginnings of early modern times in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. It breaks new ground by focusing attention on the role of geography, and more specifically on the interplay of nomadic, settled and maritime societies. In doing so, it presents a picture of the world of India and the Indian Ocean on the eve of the Portuguese discovery of the searoute: a world without stable parameters, of pervasive geophysical change, inchoate and instable urbanism, highly volatile and itinerant elites of nomadic origin, far-flung merchant diasporas, and a famine- and disease-prone peasantry whose life was a gamble on the monsoon.
Author | : André Wink |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789004135611 |
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This third volume of Andre Wink's acclaimed and pioneering "Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World" takes the reader from the late Mongol invasions to the end of the medieval period and the beginnings of early modern times in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. It breaks new ground by focusing attention on the role of geography, and more specifically on the interplay of nomadic, settled and maritime societies. In doing so, it presents a picture of the world of India and the Indian Ocean on the eve of the Portuguese discovery of the searoute: a world without stable parameters, of pervasive geophysical change, inchoate and instable urbanism, highly volatile and itinerant elites of nomadic origin, far-flung merchant diasporas, and a famine- and disease-prone peasantry whose life was a gamble on the monsoon.