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Books by Elizabeth Lambourn






Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe(Updated)
by Elizabeth Lambourn, Carol Symes
Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2016 by Arc Humanities Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-942401-09-4, ISBN: 1-942401-09-4

"Law has been a primary locus and vehicle of contact across human history--as a system of ideas embodied in people and enacted on bodies; and also as a material, textual, and sensory ""thing."" This volume analyzes a variety of legal encounters ranging from South Asia to South and Central America, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. The seven essays also explore various material expressions of law that reveal the complexity and intensit ..."






The Growth of Non-Western Cities
Primary and Secondary Urban Networking, c. 900–1900 (Comparative Urban Studies)
by Contributor-Hugh Clark, Contributor-Elizabeth Lambourn, Contributor-Peter Mentzel, Contributor-Stephen Morillo, Contributor-Hyunhee Park, Contributor-Jay Spaulding, Contributor-Aurea Toxqui, Contributor-Christopher Agnew, Kenneth R. Hall, Michael H. Chiang, Marc Jason Gilbert, Dr Christopher Agnew, John K. Whitmore, Hall/Mentzel/Lambour, Contributor-Marc Jason..., Kenneth B. Hall
Paperback, 358 Pages, Published 2011 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-4999-7, ISBN: 0-7391-4999-7

"These interdisciplinary studies address pre-1900 non-Western urban growth in the African Sudan, Mexico, the Ottoman Middle East, and South, Southeast, and East Asia. Therein, primary and secondary cities served as functional societal agents that were viable and potentially powerful alternatives to the diversity of kinship-based local or regional networks, the societal delegated spaces in which local and external agencies met and interac ..."






New Arabian Studies Volume 6(1st Edition)
(Volume 6)
by B. R. Pridham, J.R. Smart, Professor G. Rex Smith, Gerald Rex Smith, Elizabeth Lambourn, James Onley, Clive Smith, Francine Lida Stone, Abdullah A. Yateem, James R. Smart, Brian R. Pridham
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Exeter Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-706-8, ISBN: 0-85989-706-0

"'This volume [New Arabian Studies 4], like its predecessors in this series, includes a variety of topics all relating to the Arabian Peninsula. We find articles on language and literature, dialect, geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, sociology, religion and documents. It also includes illustrations and reproduction of documents in facsimile form, where needed, to support the text. The journal's main aim is to mak ..."






Abraham's Luggage(Reprint)
A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World (Asian Connections)
by Elizabeth A. Lambourn
Paperback, 318 Pages, Published 2019 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-316-62627-6, ISBN: 1-316-62627-X

"From a single merchant's list of baggage begins a history that explores the dynamic world of medieval Indian Ocean exchanges. This fresh and innovative perspective on Jewish merchant activity shows how this list was a component of broader trade connections that developed between the Islamic Mediterranean and South Asia in the Middle Ages. Drawing on a close reading of this unique twelfth-century document, found in the Cairo Genizah and ..."






A Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age
(The Cultural Histories Series)
by Lambourn, Elizabeth
Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2023 by Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN-13: 978-1-4742-9902-2, ISBN: 1-4742-9902-4

"The six volumes cover: 1. - Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE); 2. - Medieval Age (1800 - 1450); 3. - Renaissance (1450 - 1650); 4. - Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. - Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6 - Modern Age (1920 - 2000+)."






Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe
by Elizabeth Lambourn, Carol Symes
266 Pages, Published 2017 by Isd Llc
ISBN-13: 978-1-942401-11-7, ISBN: 1-942401-11-6

"Elizabeth Lambourn, Carol Symes. only ever half capture. I think I can safely speak for my fellow contributors in saying that the process of producing this volume has helped all of us to articulate our own standpoints far more clearly than if we wrote safely inside our own disciplinary confines and for our usual specialist audiences. Offner, for example, explicitly marks his contribution as a place of encounter between the lost leg ..."






Abraham's Luggage
A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World (Asian Connections)
by Elizabeth A. Lambourn
Hardcover, 316 Pages, Published 2018 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-17388-0, ISBN: 1-107-17388-4

"From a single merchant's list of baggage begins a history that explores the dynamic world of medieval Indian Ocean exchanges. This fresh and innovative perspective on Jewish merchant activity shows how this list was a component of broader trade connections that developed between the Islamic Mediterranean and South Asia in the Middle Ages. Drawing on a close reading of this unique twelfth-century document, found in the Cairo Genizah and ..."






Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800
(Comparative Urban Studies)
by Contributor-John Chaffee, Contributor-Stewart Gordon, Contributor-Alexandra Green, Contributor-Charles Argo, Contributor-James Heitzman, Contributor-Elizabeth Lambourn, Contributor-Stephen Morillo, Contributor-Jay Spaulding, Kenneth R. Hall, Contributor-Charles Wheeler, John K. Whitmore, Hall/Heitzman/Gordon, Kenneth M. Swope
Hardcover, 370 Pages, Published 2008 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-2834-3, ISBN: 0-7391-2834-5

"With the closure of the overland Silk Road in the fourteenth century following the collapse of the Mongol empire, the Indian Ocean provided the remaining vital link for wider cultural, political, and societal integrations prior to the Western colonial presence. Collectively, these studies explore the history of non-metropolitan urban settings c. 1400-1800 in the Indian Ocean realm, from the Ottoman Empire and the African coastline at th ..."






Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800(8th Edition)
(Comparative Urban Studies)
by Kenneth R. Hall, John Chaffee, Stewart Gordon, Alexandra Green, Charles Argo, James Heitzman, Elizabeth Lambourn, Stephen Morillo, Jay Spaulding, Charles Wheeler, John K. Whitmore, Kenneth M. Swope, Hall/Heitzman/Gordon, Lexington Books
Paperback, 372 Pages, Published 2008 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-2835-0, ISBN: 0-7391-2835-3

"With the closure of the overland Silk Road in the fourteenth century following the collapse of the Mongol empire, the Indian Ocean provided the remaining vital link for wider cultural, political, and societal integrations prior to the Western colonial presence. Collectively, these studies explore the history of non-metropolitan urban settings c. 1400-1800 in the Indian Ocean realm, from the Ottoman Empire and the African coastline at th ..."






The Growth of Non-Western Cities(Updated)
Primary and Secondary Urban Networking, c. 900–1900 (Comparative Urban Studies)
by Kenneth R. Hall, Dr Christopher Agnew, Michael H. Chiang, Elizabeth Lambourn, Peter Mentzel, Stephen Morillo, Hugh Clark, Jay Spaulding, Marc Jason Gilbert, Aurea Toxqui, John K. Whitmore, Professor Hyunhee Park, Hall/Mentzel/Lambour, Christopher Agnew, Contributor-Hyunhee Park, Lexington Books
Hardcover, 358 Pages, Published 2011 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-4998-0, ISBN: 0-7391-4998-9

"These interdisciplinary studies address pre-1900 non-Western urban growth in the African Sudan, Mexico, the Ottoman Middle East, and South, Southeast, and East Asia. Therein, primary and secondary cities served as functional societal agents that were viable and potentially powerful alternatives to the diversity of kinship-based local or regional networks, the societal delegated spaces in which local and external agencies met and interac ..."






Abraham's Luggage
A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World
by Elizabeth A. Lambourn
Published 2018 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-316-80042-3, ISBN: 1-316-80042-3

"This is an exploration of the motivations and difficulties of maintaining homes away from home, and the compromises that inevitably ensued."

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