Imperial connections : India in the Indian Ocean arena, 1860-1920 /

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Author / Creator:Metcalf, Thomas R., 1934- author.
Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
Description:1 online resource (xv, 264 pages) : illustrations, map
Language:English
Series:The California world history library ; 4
California world history library ; 4.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11152640
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ISBN:9780520933330
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-252) and index.
English.
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Summary:An innovative remapping of empire, Imperial Connections offers a broad-ranging view of the workings of the British Empire in the period when the India of the Raj stood at the center of a newly globalized system of trade, investment, and migration. Thomas R. Metcalf argues that India itself became a nexus of imperial power that made possible British conquest, control, and governance across a wide arc of territory stretching from Africa to eastern Asia. His book, offering a new perspective on how imperialism operates, emphasizes transcolonial interactions and webs of influence that advanced the.
Other form:Print version: Metcalf, Thomas R., 1934- Imperial connections. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007 9780520249462 0520249461
Standard no.:9780520258051