Connectivity in Motion Island Hubs in the Indian Ocean World /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schnepel, Burkhard (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Alpers, Edward A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
• Subjects: World history.; Civilization-History.; Social history.; Area studies.; Ethnography.; Human geography.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Cultural History.; Social History.; Area Studies.; Human Geography.

This original collection brings islands to the fore in a growing body of scholarship on the Indian Ocean, examining them as hubs or points of convergence and divergence in a world of maritime movements and exchanges. Straddling history and anthropology and grounded in the framework of connectivity,...