"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"'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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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."