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Across the Green Sea
A history of two centuries of interactions among the areas bordering the western Indian Ocean, including India, Iran, and Africa. Beginning in the mid-fifteenth century, the regions bordering the western Indian Ocean—“the green sea,” as it was known to Arabic speakers—had increasing contact through commerce, including a slave trade, and underwent cultural exchange and transformation. Using a variety of texts and documents in multiple Asian and European languages, Across the Green Sea looks at the history of the ocean from a variety of shifting viewpoints: western India; the Red Sea and Mecca; the Persian Gulf; East Africa; and Kerala. Sanjay Subrahmanyam sets the scene for this regio...
Shaping a Dutch East Indies
In 1724-1726, the Dutch clergyman François Valentyn published a 5,000-page account of the Dutch East India Company’s empire. It was the first and, for a long time, the only survey of the Dutch establishments in Asia and South Africa. Shaping a Dutch East Indies analyses how Valentyn composed this work and how it largely determined the Dutch perspective on the colonies in Asia until the 1850s. It seeks to highlight both the great diversity of knowledge gathered in Valentyn’s book and its geographical spread, from the Cape of Good Hope to Japan, with a focus on the Indonesian archipelago. Huigen’s book is the first in-depth study of Valentyn’s work, which is a foundational text in the history of Dutch colonialism.
Poetry of Kings
This in-depth study of the classical Hindi tradition brings the world of Mughal-era poetry and court culture alive for an English readership. Allison Busch draws on the perspectives of literary, social, and intellectual history to elucidate one of premodern India's most significant textual traditions, documenting the dramatic rise of a new type of professional Hindi writer while providing critical insight into the motives that animated this literary community and its patrons.Busch examines how riti literature served as an important aesthetic and political resource in the richly multicultural world of Mughal India, and provides, for the first time in a Western language, a detailed study of th...
How Secular is Art?
As an invitation to interrogate the secular modality of art, the book unsettles both the categories of 'art' and 'secular' in their theoretical and historical implications. It questions the temporal, spatial and cultural binaries between the 'sacred' and the 'secular' that have shaped art historical scholarship as well as artistic practice. All the essays here are anchored in a conception of a region, whether we call it South Asia or the Indian subcontinent - one, fissured by histories of partition, state formations and religious nationalisms, but still offering a collective site from which to speak to the disciplines of art and the knowledge worlds in which they are embedded. The book asks:...
Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
This book explores the great diversity and range of Islamic culture through one of the finest collections in the world. Published to coincide with the historic reopening of the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum's Islamic Art Department, it presents nearly three hundred masterworks created in the rich tradition of the Islamic faith and culture. The Metropolitan's renowned holdings range chronologically from the origins of Islam in the 7th century through the 19th century, and geographically from as far west as Spain to as far east as Southeast Asia.
I libri indiani di Nicolò Manucci (1638-1720)
Nell’avventurosa vita del veneziano Nicolò Manucci (1638-1720), trascorsa quasi per intero in India, ha un posto di assoluto rilievo il suo grandioso progetto della Storia del Mogol. Opera sterminata e sfortunata, ritratto vivissimo dell’India del tempo, frutto delle esperienze accumulate durante tutta un’esistenza e degli apporti più disparati, intorno alla sua mancata pubblicazione si mosse tra l’India, Parigi e Venezia una folla internazionale di personaggi a vario titolo coinvolti in quella vicenda. Questo Quaderno ripercorre la movimentata storia dei fatti che condussero la Storia del Mogol dal primo tentativo di pubblicazione fino alla dispersione delle sue varie parti nelle biblioteche europee.
Portrait and Place
A richly illustrated history of photography in one of the epicenters of African modernity When the daguerreotype first arrived in sub-Saharan Africa in the early nineteenth century, local kingdoms still held power in Senegal and the French presence was limited to trading outposts along the coast. The pioneers of photography in Senegal worked within, across, and beyond the borders of colonial empire, expanding the medium’s possibilities and contributing to a global visual language. Portrait and Place explores these unique encounters, providing an in-depth and nuanced look at the images made at the intersection of Black Atlantic, Islamic, and African cultures. Giulia Paoletti takes readers o...
The Emperor Who Never Was
The definitive biography of the eldest son of Emperor Shah Jahan, whose death at the hands of his younger brother Aurangzeb changed the course of South Asian history. Dara Shukoh was the eldest son of Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor, best known for commissioning the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. Although the Mughals did not practice primogeniture, Dara, a Sufi who studied Hindu thought, was the presumed heir to the throne and prepared himself to be India’s next ruler. In this exquisite narrative biography, the most comprehensive ever written, Supriya Gandhi draws on archival sources to tell the story of the four brothers—Dara, Shuja, Murad, and Aurangze...
La gara matematica di Firenze. Trent'anni di temi e soluzioni
La Gara Matematica di Firenze compie trenta anni. La competizione si rivolge a studenti della scuola secondaria superiore. Ai partecipanti sono proposti quattro esercizi per risolvere i quali sono più importanti capacità logiche e di ragionamento matematico piuttosto che conoscenze tecniche. Questo volume raccoglie i temi assegnati nelle edizioni fin qui svolte risolti e commentati. I quesiti assegnati, tutti di tipo dimostrativo, rendono questo volume interessante per docenti e studenti che intendano avvicinarsi alle competizioni matematiche.
L'avventuriero
Venezia, novembre 1653. Nicolò Manucci sale a bordo di un veliero pronto a salpare e si nasconde tra i sacchi delle provviste. Il vascello lascia a poppa le luci notturne di Palazzo Ducale. Destinazione: l’ignoto. Nel Seicento, Venezia rimaneva, assieme a Lisbona, Amsterdam e Londra, una delle principali porte europee verso le sconfinate terre dell’Asia. Da lì partivano mercanti, ambasciatori, consoli, cartografi, navigatori e spie. Nicolò Manucci non era però nessuno di questi. Aveva quattordici anni, era di umili origini ed era appena scappato di casa. A bordo di quella nave il ragazzo venne reclutato da un aristocratico inglese con un braccio solo: Lord Bellomont. L’antesignano ...
