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LEADER: 02892cam a2200445 i 4500
001 2014011957
003 DLC
005 20140926085743.0
008 140428s2014 ii b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014011957
020 $a9781107082083 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $aa------
050 00 $aHT147.A2$bS58 2014
082 00 $a307.76095$223
084 $aHIS017000$2bisacsh
245 00 $aSites of Asian interaction :$bideas, networks and mobility /$cedited by Tim Harper, Sunil Amrith.
264 1 $aDelhi, India :$bCambridge University Press,$c2014.
300 $aviii, 254 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 2 $a"Develops the rich historical literature on port cities across Asia, the quintessential sites of Asian cosmopolitanism, as well as more recent work on the 'moving metropolises' and 'mobile cities' of contemporary Asia"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / Tim Harper and Sunil S. Amrith -- Singapore, 1915, and the Birth of the Asian Underground / Tim Harper -- Living in the Material World : Cosmopolitanism and Trade in Early Twentieth Century Ladakh / Jacqueline H. Fewkes -- Nation, Race, and Language : Discussing Transnational Identities in Colonial Singapore, circa 1930 / Chua Ai Lin -- Intimate Interactions : Eurasian Family Histories in Colonial Penang / Kirsty Walker -- Citing as a Site : Translation and Circulation in Muslim South and Southeast Asia / Ronit Ricci -- Popular Sites of Prayer, Transoceanic Migration, and Cultural Diversity : Exploring the significance of keramat in Southeast Asia / Sumit K. Mandal -- Connecting People : A Central Asian Sufi network in turn-of-the-century Istanbul / Lale Can -- "Enough of the Great Napoleons!" : Raja Mahendra Pratap's Pan-Asian projects (1929-1939) / Carolien Stolte -- Chinatowns and Borderlands : Inter-Asian Encounters in the Diaspora / Evelyn Hu-Dehart -- Creating Spaces for Asian Interaction through the Anti-Globalisation Campaigns in the Region / Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem.
650 0 $aPort cities$zAsia$xHistory.
650 0 $aCosmopolitanism$zAsia$xHistory.
650 0 $aCity and town life$zAsia$xHistory.
650 0 $aSocial interaction$zAsia$xHistory.
650 0 $aSocial mobility$zAsia$xHistory.
650 0 $aSocial networks$zAsia$xHistory.
651 0 $aAsia$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aAsia$xRelations.
651 0 $aAsia$xIntellectual life.
651 0 $aAsia$xCommerce$xHistory.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aHarper, T. N.$q(Timothy Norman),$d1965-
700 1 $aAmrith, Sunil S.,$d1979-
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/82083/cover/9781107082083.jpg