Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants

by Sunil Amrith

Book Overview

The Indian Ocean was global long before the Atlantic, and today the countries bordering the Bay of Bengal'e"India, Bangladesh, Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Malaysia'e"are home to one in four people on Earth. Crossing the Bay of Bengal places this region at the heart of world history for the first time. Integrating human and environmental history, and mining a wealth of sources, Sunil Amrith gives a revelatory and stirring new account of the Bay...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674724836
• ISBN13: 9780674724839
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"