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South Asia in World History
Marc Jason Gilbert
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Description for South Asia in World History
Paperback. This book explores how world historical processes, from changes in environment to the movement of peoples and ideas, have shaped and continue to shape the history of South Asia and its place in the wider world. Series: New Oxford World History. Num Pages: 200 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
It can be said of South Asia what has long been said of its great epic poem, the Mahabharata: there is nothing in it that cannot be found elsewhere in the world and nothing in the world that cannot be found there. South Asia's historic trans-regional connections to the wider world include the trade between its most ancient civilization with Sumer and central Asia, the diffusion beyond its shores of three of the world's major religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism), its cultural encounters with the Greeks, Islam, European imperialism, the spread of it cuisine (from crystalized sugar ... Read more
It can be said of South Asia what has long been said of its great epic poem, the Mahabharata: there is nothing in it that cannot be found elsewhere in the world and nothing in the world that cannot be found there. South Asia's historic trans-regional connections to the wider world include the trade between its most ancient civilization with Sumer and central Asia, the diffusion beyond its shores of three of the world's major religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism), its cultural encounters with the Greeks, Islam, European imperialism, the spread of it cuisine (from crystalized sugar ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
New Oxford World History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199760343
SKU
V9780199760343
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About Marc Jason Gilbert
Marc Jason Gilbert is the NEH Endowed Chair of World History at Hawai'i Pacific University. A founding member of the World History Association, he has edited or authored numerous books on modern South and Southeast Asian history, including The Vietnam War: Teaching Approaches and Resources and World Civilizations: The Global Experience.
Reviews for South Asia in World History
South Asia in World History is a masterful survey of the entire span of South Asian history ... erudite, comprehensive, and compelling ... Gilbert brilliantly offers a lucid analysis that the neophyte to the subject will find illuminating and rewarding. It judiciously blends analysis and fact in an accessible, yet authoritative manner and incorporates all the corners of the sub-continent ... Read more