Empires between Islam and Christianity, 1500-1800

Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Distinguished Professor and Irving and Jean Stone Chair in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of several books, including The Political Economy of Commerce: Southern India, 1500–1650.

• Preface 1. Introduction: Revisiting Empires and Connecting HistoriesBeginnings 2. Rethinking the Establishment of the Estado da India, 1498–15093. Italians, Corsicans, and Portuguese in the Indian Ocean4. Unhappy Subjects of Empire, 1515–1530Connections and Comparisons 5. Connecting the Iberian Empires, 1500–16406. Mughals, Ottomans, and Habsburgs: Some Comparisons7. Iberian Roots of the British EmpireRepresentations 8. World Historians in the Sixteenth Century9. Empires and Wonders10. Early Modern Empires and Intellectual Networks11. Asia Between and Beyond Empires Bibliography Index Maps and Illustrations Map 1. The Iberian Empires on a World Scale, 1580–1640Map 2. The Central Habsburg and Ottoman domains, ca. 1550Fig. 1. Arabic letter from the ruler of Kannur (Cannanore) to Antonio Carneiro in Portugal (1518), Torre doTombo, LisbonFig. 2. Letter from the Tamil merchants of Melaka to the King of Portugal (1527), Torre do Tombo, LisbonFig. 3. Text of the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), Biblioteca Nacional, LisbonFig. 4. Representation of Portuguese fidalgos in Goa from Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, Itinerario (1596)Fig. 5. View of the mining centre of Potosi in Bolivia, by Bernard Lens (1715)Fig. 6. World map from the Ottoman Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi (1730)Fig. 7. Hunting exotic animals in America, from the Ottoman Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi (1730)Fig. 8. Portuguese representation of a monster in Turkey, from Emblema vivente (1727)Fig. 9. John Stafford, Asia, from an allegory of the continents (1625–35)Fig. 10. Map of ‘Iqlīm Āsyā’ based on Katib Celebi’s Cihānnumā, printed by Ibrahim Muteferrika (1732)

"…Subrahmanyam manages brilliantly to bypass aprioristic historiographical and geographical categories with their heuristic bias and ideological implications." — Cyber Review of Modern Historiography"Sanjay Subrahmanyam, the preeminent practitioner of 'connected histories,' offers yet another set of fascinating encounters of peoples, objects, ideas, and practices between the Ottoman, Mughal, and British empires. As always, he stays close to the archive, but is nonetheless able to spin a wonderfully imaginative web of pictures and stories. A delightful read." — Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University