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Article: Maritime India.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 2005
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Maritime India. By Holden Furber, Sinnappah Arasaramam, and Kenneth McPherson. With an introduction by Sanjay Subrahmanyam. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 1074. $65.00.)
This massive omnibus includes facsimile reprints of three classic studies of maritime Asia, attempting to break down the epistemological walls between coast and hinterland from progressively less Eurocentric perspectives. Preceded by a mini-introduction by Sanjay Subrahmanyam, the trilogy opens with the late Holden Furber's Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600-1800 (originally published in 1976). Although conceived in the traditional framework of European expansion studies, ...