| Three Ways to Be Alien: Travails & Encounters in the Early Modern World Contributor(s): Subrahmanyam, Sanjay (Author) |
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ISBN: 1584659920 ISBN-13: 9781584659921 Publisher: Brandeis University Press OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Modern - 17th Century - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 954.025 |
| LCCN: 2011000130 |
| Series: Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6" W x 8.98" (0.81 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Cultural Region - Middle East - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Nicol Manuzzi, an insightful Venetian chronicler of the Mughal Empire in the later seventeenth century who drifted between jobs with the Mughals and various foreign entrep ts, 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. |