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028			_a: Brijwasi Book Distributors _b: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi _c: BW/000535 _d: 30/04/2026
082			_a909.097 SIV
100			_aSivasundaram, Sujit.
245			_aWaves Across The South _b: A New History of Revolution and Empire.
260			_aChicago _b : University of Chicago Press, _c, 2021.
300			_axx, 468 p. _c; 24 cm.
365			_b939
520			_aSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING AND LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2021‘Helps re-centre how we look at the world’ PETER FRANKOPAN‘Global history at its finest’ SUNIL AMRITH‘A master class’ OLIVETTE OTELE'Fascinating' FINANCIAL TIMESStarting from the ocean and from the forgotten histories of ocean-facing communities, this is a new history of the making of our world.After revolutions in America and France, a wave of tumult coursed the globe from 1790 to 1850. It was a moment of unprecedented change and violence especially for indigenous peoples. By 1850 vibrant public debate between colonised communities had exploded in port cities. Yet in the midst of all of this, Britain struck out by sea and established its supremacy over the Indian and Pacific Oceans, overtaking the French and Dutch as well as other rivals.Cambridge historian Sujit Sivasundaram brings together his work in far-flung archives across the world and the best new academic research in this remarkably creative book. Too often, history is told from the northern hemisphere, with modernity, knowledge, selfhood and politics moving from Europe to influence the rest of the world. This book traces the origins of our times from the perspective of indigenous and non-European people in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.This is a compulsive story full of cultural depth and range, a world history that speaks to urgent concerns today. The book weaves a bracingly fresh account of the origins of the British empire.
650			_aSouth Asia
650			_aPacific Area
650			_aHistory.
700			_aSujit Sivasundaram
942			_cBOOK
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