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

• Main Author: Rose, Jenny (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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?.