Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920 Volume 4

by Thomas R. Metcalf

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520258053
• ISBN13: 9780520258051
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"