Year: 2025 Language: English Author: Fahad Ahmad Bishara Genre: Historical Publisher: University of California Press Edition: 1st (October 2025) ISBN: 9780520415935 Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 388 Description: Monsoon Voyagers follows the voyage of a single dhow, the Crooked, along with its captain and crew, from Kuwait to port cities around the Persian Gulf and Western Indian Ocean, from 1924 to 1925. Through his account of the voyage, Fahad Ahmad Bishara unpacks a much broader history of circulation and exchange across the Arabian Sea in the time of empire. From their offices in India, Arabia, and East Africa, Gulf merchants used the technologies of colonial capitalism banks, steamships, railroads, telegraphs, and more to remake their own regional bazaar economy. In the process, they remade the Gulf itself. Drawing on the Crooked's first-person logbooks, along with letters, notes, and business accounts from a range of port cities, Monsoon Voyagers narrates the still-untold connected histories of the Gulf and Indian Ocean. The Gulf's past, it suggests, played out across the sea as much as it did the land.
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Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History
Language: English
Author: Fahad Ahmad Bishara
Genre: Historical
Publisher: University of California Press
Edition: 1st (October 2025)
ISBN: 9780520415935
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 388
Description: Monsoon Voyagers follows the voyage of a single dhow, the Crooked, along with its captain and crew, from Kuwait to port cities around the Persian Gulf and Western Indian Ocean, from 1924 to 1925. Through his account of the voyage, Fahad Ahmad Bishara unpacks a much broader history of circulation and exchange across the Arabian Sea in the time of empire. From their offices in India, Arabia, and East Africa, Gulf merchants used the technologies of colonial capitalism banks, steamships, railroads, telegraphs, and more to remake their own regional bazaar economy. In the process, they remade the Gulf itself.
Drawing on the Crooked's first-person logbooks, along with letters, notes, and business accounts from a range of port cities, Monsoon Voyagers narrates the still-untold connected histories of the Gulf and Indian Ocean. The Gulf's past, it suggests, played out across the sea as much as it did the land.
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