Between Boston and Bombay Cultural and Commercial Encounters of Yankees and Parsis, 1771-1865 /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Rose, Jenny (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: United States-History.; World history.; Southeast Asia-History.; Civilization-History.; US History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; History of Southeast Asia.; Cultural History.

A few years after the American declaration of independence, the first American ships set sail to India. The commercial links that American merchant mariners established with the Parsis of Bombay shaped the material and intellectual culture of the early Republic in ways that have not been explored un...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Arrivals: Parsis, Pilgrims and Puritans
• 2. "A Nice Morality" (1771-1798)
• 3. A Shawl Handkerchief and a Cabinet of Curiosities (1799-1806)
• 4. Merchant Princes, Missionaries and a Man-of-War (1807-1815)
• 5. A Passage to and from India (1816-1835)
• 6. Gods and Temples, Ice and the Whale (1836-1851)
• 7. Consuls, Industrial Innovations and a Walking Stick (1852-1865)
• 8. A Final Coda: Fragrant Memories?.