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Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia

By: Sunil S. Amrith

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Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia

By: Sunil S. Amrith

Migration is at the heart of Asian history. For centuries migrants have tracked the routes and seas of their ancestors - merchants, pilgrims, soldiers and sailors - along the Silk Road and across the Indian Ocean and the China Sea. Over the last 150 years, however, migration within Asia and beyond has been greater than at any other time in history. Sunil S. Amrith's engaging and deeply informative book crosses a vast terrain, from the Middle East to India and China, tracing the history of modern migration. Animated by the voices of Asian migrants, it tells the stories of those forced to flee from war and revolution, and those who left their homes and their families in search of a better life. These stories of Asian diasporas can be joyful or poignant, but they all speak of an engagement with new landscapes and new peoples.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139497030

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9781139497039

Crossing the Bay of Bengal

The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants

By: Sunil S. Amrith

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The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants

By: Sunil S. Amrith

The Indian Ocean was global long before the Atlantic, and today the countries bordering the Bay of Bengal—India, Bangladesh, Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Malaysia—are home to one in four people on Earth. Crossing the Bay of Bengal places this region at the heart of world history for the first time. Integrating human and environmental history, and mining a wealth of sources, Sunil Amrith gives a revelatory and stirring new account of the Bay and those who have inhabited it. For centuries the Bay of Bengal served as a maritime highway between India and China, and then as a battleground for European empires, all while being shaped by the monsoons and by human migration. Imperial powers in the nineteenth century, abetted by the force of capital and the power of steam, reconfigured the Bay in their quest for coffee, rice, and rubber. Millions of Indian migrants crossed the sea, bound by debt or spurred by drought, and filled with ambition. Booming port cities like Singapore and Penang became the most culturally diverse societies of their time. By the 1930s, however, economic, political, and environmental pressures began to erode the Bay’s centuries-old patterns of interconnection. Today, rising waters leave the Bay of Bengal’s shores especially vulnerable to climate change, at the same time that its location makes it central to struggles over Asia’s future. Amrith’s evocative and compelling narrative of the region’s pasts offers insights critical to understanding and confronting the many challenges facing Asia in the decades ahead.

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Harvard University Press

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0674728475

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9780674728479

Unruly Waters

How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History

By: Sunil Amrith

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Unruly Waters

How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History

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From a MacArthur "Genius," a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to tame its waters Asia's history has been shaped by her waters. In Unruly Waters, historian Sunil Amrith reimagines Asia's history through the stories of its rains, rivers, coasts, and seas -- and of the weather-watchers and engineers, mapmakers and farmers who have sought to control them. Looking out from India, he shows how dreams and fears of water shaped visions of political independence and economic development, provoked efforts to reshape nature through dams and pumps, and unleashed powerful tensions within and between nations. Today, Asian nations are racing to construct hundreds of dams in the Himalayas, with dire environmental impacts; hundreds of millions crowd into coastal cities threatened by cyclones and storm surges. In an age of climate change, Unruly Waters is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand Asia's past and its future.

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Basic Books

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0465097731

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Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia

By: Sunil S. Amrith

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0511987676

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Crossing the Bay of Bengal

By: Sunil S. Amrith

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For centuries the Bay of Bengal served as a maritime highway between India and China, and as a battleground for European empires, while being shaped by monsoons and human migration. Integrating environmental history and mining a wealth of sources, Sunil S. Amrith offers insights to the many challenges facing Asia in the decades ahead.

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0674728467

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Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia

By: Sunil S. Amrith

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1107219604

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Decolonizing International Health

India and Southeast Asia, 1930-65

By: Sunil S. Amrith

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Decolonizing International Health

India and Southeast Asia, 1930-65

By: Sunil S. Amrith

In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Asia was at the heart of international efforts to create a new utopia: a world free from disease. Positioned at the unexplored boundary between international history and the history of colonial/postcolonial medicine, the book is a political, intellectual, and social history of public health in Asia, from the 1930s to the early 1960s. The discussion takes India as its core focus, but highlights the international networks connecting developments in India with the Asian region and the wider world, from Rangoon to New York. Drawing on a diverse range of sources, the book contributes to debates on nationalism, internationalism and the post-colonial State.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1403985936

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9781403985934

Book's by Sunil S. Amrith

Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia

Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia

Crossing the Bay of Bengal

Crossing the Bay of Bengal

Unruly Waters

Unruly Waters

Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia

Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia

Crossing the Bay of Bengal

Crossing the Bay of Bengal

Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia

Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia

Decolonizing International Health

Decolonizing International Health

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