Waves across the south a new history of revolution and empire

This is a story of tides and coastlines, winds and waves, islands and beaches. It is alsoa retellingof indigenous creativity, agency, and resistance in the face of unprecedented globalization and violence. Waves Across the South shifts the narrative of the Age of Revolutions and the origins of the B...

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Main Author: Sivasundaram, Sujit
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2021, ©2021
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520 3 |a This is a story of tides and coastlines, winds and waves, islands and beaches. It is alsoa retellingof indigenous creativity, agency, and resistance in the face of unprecedented globalization and violence. Waves Across the South shifts the narrative of the Age of Revolutions and the origins of the British Empire; it fore grounds a vast southern zone that ranges from the Arabian Sea and southwest Indian Ocean across to the Bay of Bengal, and onward to the South Pacific and the Tasman Sea. As the empire sof the Dutch, French, and especially the British reached across these regions, they faced a surge of revolutionary sentiment.Long-standing venerable Eurasian empires, established patterns of trade and commerce, and indigenous practicealso served as a context for this transformative era. In addition to bringing long-ignored people and events to the fore,Sujit Sivasundaram opens the door to new and necessary conversations about environmental history, the consequences of historical violence, the legacies of empire, the extraction of resources, and the indigenous futures that Western imperialism cut short. The result is nothing less than abold new way of understanding our global past, one that also helps us think afresh about our shared future.