Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Disco

Informationen zum Autor Muzaffar Alam is Carl Darling Buck Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. His previous publications include A European Experience of the Mughal Orient! with S. Alavi (2001). Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Professor and Doshi Chair of Indian History at UCLA. His previous publications include The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama (1997). Klappentext A study of Persian travel accounts, dealing with India, Iran and Central Asia between 1400 and 1800. Zusammenfassung An important study of travel accounts in Persian! dealing with India! Iran and Central Asia between 1400 and 1800. This book can be read for a better understanding of the nature of early modern encounters! but also for the sheer pleasure of entering a new world. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the travel account from Beijing to the Bosphorus; 2. From Timur to the Bahmanis: fifteenth-century views; 3. Courtly encounters; 4. An ocean of wonders; 5. When hell is other people; 6. An eastern mirror; 7. The long road to rum; 8. On early-modern travel.

Product details

• Authors: Muzaffar Alam, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Subrahmanyam Sanjay
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2010
• EAN: 9780521129558
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12955-8
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Expedition, Reisebericht, Europa, Europäische Geschichte, 1500 bis heute, Zentralasien, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Reisetagebuch, Mittelasien, Geographie, European History, Forschungsreise, Erdkunde, Persisches Reich, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, Europa / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Reisebericht - Reisebeschreibung, Geografie - Geograf, Asien (Erdteil) / Zentralasien, Historische Staaten und Reiche in Asien, Englische Bücher / Reise / Asien, HISTORY / Renaissance, TRAVEL / Asia / India & South Asia, Persien / Reisebeschreibung, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599