Sebastian R Prange
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 329289 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sebastian R Prange |
| PRENOMES | Sebastian R |
| SOBRENOME | Prange |
| ASSINATURA | PRANGE S R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3980-2185 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Indian Ocean between God and Empire
The Indian Ocean between God and Empire. Un article de la revue Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada (Volume 32, numéro 1, 2022, p. 1-171) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
A History of Jeddah
Jeddah is different. This Arabic saying (Jeddah ghayr), which has become the city’s official motto, acknowledges Jeddah’s singular role within the history of the Arabian Peninsula. Its other well-known monikers—‘Bride of the Red Sea’ and ‘Gate to Mecca’—point to the reason for this difference: Jeddah’s dual orientation towards the maritime worlds of the greater Red Sea region, Mediterranean Sea, and Indian Ocean on the one hand, and towards the h…
Monsoon Islam
Between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, a distinct form of Islamic thought and practice developed among Muslim trading communities of the Indian Ocean. Sebastian R. Prange argues that this 'Monsoon Islam' was shaped by merchants not sultans, forged by commercial imperatives rather than in battle, and defined by the reality of Muslims living within non-Muslim societies. Focusing on India's Malabar Coast, the much-fabled 'land of pepper', Pran…
Monsoon Islam
In the medieval period, a distinct form of islamic thought and practice developed within the world of the Indian Ocean. 2017 Wall Scholar Sebastian Prange explains how monsoon Islam was shaped by merchants and commercial interests rather than in battle
The Pagan King Replies
This article recommends a virtually unknown manuscript on the early Portuguese presence in India to wider scholarly attention. Dubbed here the Wye manuscript, this text purports to be an English translation of a sixteenth-century Malayalam history that was produced at the court of the ruler of Calicut. The South Indian kingdom of Calicut was central to Portugal’s project of monopolizing the region’s all-important pepper trade; the Wye manuscript …
Piracy in Asian Waters Part 2
This is the second of a two-part special issue on piracy in Asian waters. Part 1 (vol. 16, no. 6) explored the social and economic dynamics of pan-Asian piracy, and here in Part 2, contributors delve into the political dimensions of piracy by focusing on its interrelationship with notions of sovereignty, the changing nature of states in early modern Asia, and the rise of global seaborne empires. The four articles here challenge the conventional w…
The Contested Sea
Rulers on the Indian Ocean littoral are generally portrayed as having been uninterested in the pursuit of sea power until the coming of the Europeans. This article examines a series of case studies from this earlier period to argue that maritime violence had long been a part of expansionist political projects centered on the control of trade routes and coastal waters. In their sum, they show the Indian Ocean to have been an arena of active politi…
Piracy in Asian Waters
Seafaring, and especially the use of seaborne violence, in the early modern period is strongly associated with European naval activity. In this issue and the next, this perspective is challenged through a sustained interrogation of indigenous piracy in Asian waters. A series of studies highlight the persistence, sophistication, and breathtaking scale of Asian piracy. They show how piracy was deeply ingrained in the social worlds, commercial excha…
Outlaw Economics
History often reveals itself at the margins. Hegemony becomes tangible at its peripheries, claims to legitimacy are most emphatically articulated where challenged, and rules are best observed in their breach. For this reason, historians have long been drawn to the study of border zones where sovereignty was contested or subverted rather than tacitly accepted. This work by historians is complemented by, although rarely integrated with, research in…
The Merchant Houses of Mocha
Book Review| August 01 2011 The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean PortUm, NancySeattle: University of Washington Press, 2009 xiii+ 270 pp., $75.00 (cloth), $30.00 (paper) Sebastian R. Prange Sebastian R. Prange Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) …
A Trade of No Dishonor
A 1740 map by Jacques Nicolas Bellin showing the Persian coast and India's western seaboard.The Malabar Coast, on the southwestern verge of the Indian peninsula, had been home to sea rovers since ancient times.1 This resurgence of maritime studies was reflected in the AHA's initiative in organizing a major conference on oceanic history in 2003; selected papers, three of which directly address the topic of piracy
Measuring by the bushel'
Of all the oriental spices, black pepper was the most important until the eighteenth century. The historiography of the pepper trade is characterized by a strong focus on Europe in terms of both its economic significance in the ancient and medieval periods and the struggle for its control in the early modern period. This article, by contrast, seeks to situate the pepper trade firmly in its Asian contexts. It examines the Indian Ocean pepper trade…
Scholars and the Sea
This essay won the 2007 History Compass Graduate Essay Prize, World Section. This article surveys the historiography of the Indian Ocean to examine the problems and opportunities of using maritime spaces as frameworks for world history studies. It first considers the problem of demarcating maritime space according to different material and mental definitions. Its second part assesses different periodizations that reflect the main themes of schola…
Trickster Travels. A Sixteenth-Century Muslim between Worlds
Trust in God, but tie your camel first.’ The economic organization of the trans-Saharan slave trade between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries
This article examines the economic organization of the trans-Saharan slave trade between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries on those routes that moved slaves from Sudanic Africa via entrepôts in the Sahel and Sahara to the Maghrib. The commercial framework of this trade was integrated into ethnic, cultural, and religious systems, yet for its efficient operation could not rely solely on these social institutions. Temporary cooperation of itin…
Jinnealogy
Monsoon Islam
In the medieval period, a distinct form of islamic thought and practice developed within the world of the Indian Ocean. 2017 Wall Scholar Sebastian Prange explains how monsoon Islam was shaped by merchants and commercial interests rather than in battle
The Contested Sea
Rulers on the Indian Ocean littoral are generally portrayed as having been uninterested in the pursuit of sea power until the coming of the Europeans. This article examines a series of case studies from this earlier period to argue that maritime violence had long been a part of expansionist political projects centered on the control of trade routes and coastal waters. In their sum, they show the Indian Ocean to have been an arena of active politi…
Scholars and the Sea
This essay won the 2007 History Compass Graduate Essay Prize, World Section. This article surveys the historiography of the Indian Ocean to examine the problems and opportunities of using maritime spaces as frameworks for world history studies. It first considers the problem of demarcating maritime space according to different material and mental definitions. Its second part assesses different periodizations that reflect the main themes of schola…
Trickster Travels. A Sixteenth-Century Muslim between Worlds
Trust in God, but tie your camel first.’ The economic organization of the trans-Saharan slave trade between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries
This article examines the economic organization of the trans-Saharan slave trade between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries on those routes that moved slaves from Sudanic Africa via entrepôts in the Sahel and Sahara to the Maghrib. The commercial framework of this trade was integrated into ethnic, cultural, and religious systems, yet for its efficient operation could not rely solely on these social institutions. Temporary cooperation of itin…
The Pagan King Replies
This article recommends a virtually unknown manuscript on the early Portuguese presence in India to wider scholarly attention. Dubbed here the Wye manuscript, this text purports to be an English translation of a sixteenth-century Malayalam history that was produced at the court of the ruler of Calicut. The South Indian kingdom of Calicut was central to Portugal’s project of monopolizing the region’s all-important pepper trade; the Wye manuscript …
Measuring by the bushel'
Of all the oriental spices, black pepper was the most important until the eighteenth century. The historiography of the pepper trade is characterized by a strong focus on Europe in terms of both its economic significance in the ancient and medieval periods and the struggle for its control in the early modern period. This article, by contrast, seeks to situate the pepper trade firmly in its Asian contexts. It examines the Indian Ocean pepper trade…
Trust in God, but tie your camel first.’ The economic organization of the trans-Saharan slave trade between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries
This article examines the economic organization of the trans-Saharan slave trade between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries on those routes that moved slaves from Sudanic Africa via entrepôts in the Sahel and Sahara to the Maghrib. The commercial framework of this trade was integrated into ethnic, cultural, and religious systems, yet for its efficient operation could not rely solely on these social institutions. Temporary cooperation of itin…
Trickster Travels. A Sixteenth-Century Muslim between Worlds
Scholars and the Sea
This essay won the 2007 History Compass Graduate Essay Prize, World Section. This article surveys the historiography of the Indian Ocean to examine the problems and opportunities of using maritime spaces as frameworks for world history studies. It first considers the problem of demarcating maritime space according to different material and mental definitions. Its second part assesses different periodizations that reflect the main themes of schola…
Outlaw Economics
History often reveals itself at the margins. Hegemony becomes tangible at its peripheries, claims to legitimacy are most emphatically articulated where challenged, and rules are best observed in their breach. For this reason, historians have long been drawn to the study of border zones where sovereignty was contested or subverted rather than tacitly accepted. This work by historians is complemented by, although rarely integrated with, research in…
The Merchant Houses of Mocha
Book Review| August 01 2011 The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean PortUm, NancySeattle: University of Washington Press, 2009 xiii+ 270 pp., $75.00 (cloth), $30.00 (paper) Sebastian R. Prange Sebastian R. Prange Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) …
A Trade of No Dishonor
A 1740 map by Jacques Nicolas Bellin showing the Persian coast and India's western seaboard.The Malabar Coast, on the southwestern verge of the Indian peninsula, had been home to sea rovers since ancient times.1 This resurgence of maritime studies was reflected in the AHA's initiative in organizing a major conference on oceanic history in 2003; selected papers, three of which directly address the topic of piracy
Measuring by the bushel'
Of all the oriental spices, black pepper was the most important until the eighteenth century. The historiography of the pepper trade is characterized by a strong focus on Europe in terms of both its economic significance in the ancient and medieval periods and the struggle for its control in the early modern period. This article, by contrast, seeks to situate the pepper trade firmly in its Asian contexts. It examines the Indian Ocean pepper trade…
Piracy in Asian Waters
Seafaring, and especially the use of seaborne violence, in the early modern period is strongly associated with European naval activity. In this issue and the next, this perspective is challenged through a sustained interrogation of indigenous piracy in Asian waters. A series of studies highlight the persistence, sophistication, and breathtaking scale of Asian piracy. They show how piracy was deeply ingrained in the social worlds, commercial excha…
Piracy in Asian Waters Part 2
This is the second of a two-part special issue on piracy in Asian waters. Part 1 (vol. 16, no. 6) explored the social and economic dynamics of pan-Asian piracy, and here in Part 2, contributors delve into the political dimensions of piracy by focusing on its interrelationship with notions of sovereignty, the changing nature of states in early modern Asia, and the rise of global seaborne empires. The four articles here challenge the conventional w…
The Contested Sea
Rulers on the Indian Ocean littoral are generally portrayed as having been uninterested in the pursuit of sea power until the coming of the Europeans. This article examines a series of case studies from this earlier period to argue that maritime violence had long been a part of expansionist political projects centered on the control of trade routes and coastal waters. In their sum, they show the Indian Ocean to have been an arena of active politi…
The Pagan King Replies
This article recommends a virtually unknown manuscript on the early Portuguese presence in India to wider scholarly attention. Dubbed here the Wye manuscript, this text purports to be an English translation of a sixteenth-century Malayalam history that was produced at the court of the ruler of Calicut. The South Indian kingdom of Calicut was central to Portugal’s project of monopolizing the region’s all-important pepper trade; the Wye manuscript …
Monsoon Islam
Between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, a distinct form of Islamic thought and practice developed among Muslim trading communities of the Indian Ocean. Sebastian R. Prange argues that this 'Monsoon Islam' was shaped by merchants not sultans, forged by commercial imperatives rather than in battle, and defined by the reality of Muslims living within non-Muslim societies. Focusing on India's Malabar Coast, the much-fabled 'land of pepper', Pran…
Monsoon Islam
In the medieval period, a distinct form of islamic thought and practice developed within the world of the Indian Ocean. 2017 Wall Scholar Sebastian Prange explains how monsoon Islam was shaped by merchants and commercial interests rather than in battle
The Indian Ocean between God and Empire
The Indian Ocean between God and Empire. Un article de la revue Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada (Volume 32, numéro 1, 2022, p. 1-171) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
A History of Jeddah
Jeddah is different. This Arabic saying (Jeddah ghayr), which has become the city’s official motto, acknowledges Jeddah’s singular role within the history of the Arabian Peninsula. Its other well-known monikers—‘Bride of the Red Sea’ and ‘Gate to Mecca’—point to the reason for this difference: Jeddah’s dual orientation towards the maritime worlds of the greater Red Sea region, Mediterranean Sea, and Indian Ocean on the one hand, and towards the h…
Jinnealogy
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