Three Ways to Be Alien Travails and Encounters in the Early Modern World - The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures
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Sanjay Subrahmanyam's Three Ways to Be Alien draws on the lives and writings of a trio of marginal and liminal figures cast adrift from their traditional moorings into an unknown world. The subjects include the aggrieved and lost Meale, a "Persian" prince of Bijapur (in central India, no less) held hostage by the Portuguese at Goa; English traveler and global schemer Anthony Sherley, whose writings reveal a surprisingly nimble understanding of realpolitik in the emerging world of the early seventeenth century; and Nicolò Manuzzi, an insightful Venetian chronicler of the Mughal Empire in the later seventeenth century who drifted between jobs with the Mughals and various foreign entrepôts, observing all but remaining the eternal outsider. In telling the fascinating story of floating identities in a changing world, Subrahmanyam also succeeds in injecting humanity into global history and proves that biography still plays an important role in contemporary historiography.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781584659914 |
Publisher: | Brandeis University Press |
Imprint: | Brandeis University Press |
Pub date: | 11 Aug 2011 |
DEWEY: | 954.0254 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 228 |
Weight: | 488g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine width: | 23mm |