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050	0	0	_aDS34 _b.G46 2014
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245	0	0	_aGlobal Muslims in the age of steam and print / _cedited by James L. Gelvin, Nile Green.
260			_aBerkeley : _bUniversity of California Press, _cc2014.
300			_aix, 285 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c23 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"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 distant 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 from a multiplicity of approaches and genres, from commodity history to biography and social network theory, the essays in Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print, 1850-1930 offer new and diverse perspectives on a transnational community in an era of global transformation. "--
520			_a"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 distant 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 from a multiplicity of approaches and genres, from commodity history to biography and 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"--
650		0	_aIslamic civilization _y19th century. _96792
650		0	_aTechnology _zIslamic countries _xHistory _y19th century. _96793
651		0	_aIslamic countries _xHistory _y19th century. _96794
700	1		_aGelvin, James L., _d1951- _96795
700	1		_aGreen, Nile. _96796
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