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Global Muslims in the age of steam and print

Gelvin, James L, Green, Nile

2014,2013,2019

Overview

The second half of the nineteenth century marks a watershed in human history. Railroads linked remote hinterlands with cities; overland and undersea cables connected distant continents. New and accessible print technologies made the wide dissemination of ideas possible; oceangoing steamers carried goods to faraway markets and enabled the greatest long-distance migrations in recorded history. In this volume, leading scholars of the Islamic world recount the enduring consequences these technological, economic, social, and cultural revolutions had on Muslim communities from North Africa to South Asia, the Indian Ocean, and China. Drawing on a multiplicity of approaches and genres, from commodity history to biography to social network theory, the essays in Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print offer new and diverse perspectives on a transnational community in an era of global transformation.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: 19th century / age of print / age of steam / china / comparative religion / cultural revolutions / economic change / global muslims / global religions / globalization / HISTORY / HISTORY / Middle East / General / HISTORY / World / human history / indian ocean / industrialization / islam / Islamic civilization / Islamic civilization -- 19th century / Islamic countries / Islamic countries -- History -- 19th century / islamic scholars / islamic world / long distance migration / muslim communities / muslims / north africa / print technologies / religious historians / religious history / religious scholars / social change / social network theory / south asia / steamships / technological developments / Technology / Technology -- Islamic countries -- History -- 19th century
• ISBN: 0520275020, 9780520275010, 9780520275027, 0520275012, 9780520957220, 0520957229