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Between Boston and Bombay, 1st ed. 2019
Cultural and Commercial Encounters of Yankees and Parsis, 1771–1865
Author: Rose Jenny
Language: EnglishKeywords
relations between America and India; Parsis of Gujarat and Bombay; Zoroastrians of northwestern India; Zoroastrianism in the US; Zoroastrian texts; Americans and Parsis; Moby Dick; Herman Melville; Parsis and Christian missionaries; Parsi mariners; New England and India; American views of Parsis; English East India Company; early American republic; American intellectual history; American material culture; Parsi-American interaction
Publication date: 11-2020
328 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 11-2019
Support: Print on demand
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Examines the hitherto unexplored contributions of the Parsis of Gujarat and Bombay to the material and intellectual culture of America from just before independence to the end of the Civil War
Contributes to scholarly efforts to internationalize the history of the early American republic
Draws upon an comprehensive array of previously untapped primary sources