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The Virtual Encyclopaedia of Portuguese Expansion / A Enciclopedia Virtual da Expansao Portuguesa

2009-06-03T11:32:00.001+10:00

http://www.cham.fcsh.unl.pt/eve/index.php?lang=en

03 Jun 2009

Centro de Historia de Alem-Mar (CHAM), Universidade Nova de Lisboa & Universidade dos Acores [Azores], Portugal

Self-description:
"The Virtual Encyclopaedia of Portuguese Expansion is a project developed by the Centre for Overseas History, an interuniversity research unit of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon and the University of the Azores. The project makes available multimedia contents of a scientific, educational, and cultural nature on the history of the discoveries and the Portuguese expansion.
The Virtual Encyclopaedia of Portuguese Expansion is meant for a broad audience both within and outside Portugal, including secondary school students, university students and researchers, social communication professionals, and all those interested in the history of the discoveries and the Portuguese expansion.
The Virtual Encyclopaedia of Portuguese Expansion offers articles, images, maps, chronologies, and genealogies of a condensed nature, but endowed with great scientific authority and reliability. It is continually being expanded and updated. The materials are produced by professors and researchers from the academia and validated by a scientific committee composed of the most renowned national and foreign historians. The project covers a vast geographical area which extends from the Azores to Japan, and a period of time from the beginning of the 15th century to the end of the 18th century.
The bilingual [PT/EN - ed.] nature of the Virtual Encyclopaedia of Portuguese Expansion makes it an indispensable means for the international dissemination of the history and historiography of the Portuguese presence around the world (though, for technical reasons, the online availability of English-language translations might not keep pace with the Portuguese entries, and vice versa). The national character of the Portuguese expansive enterprise is emphasized, along with its integration into a wider European context and its importance for a new emerging European consciousness which is now suspended between criticism and apology for the process of Western expansion."

Site contents [as of early June 2009 - ed.]:
* Anthroponyms (Abreu, Luis de - Adami, Joao Mateus - Adao de Hizen [...] - Vieira, Sebastiao - Vilela, Gaspar - Zola, Joao Baptista)
* Arts (Azamor, frescos da Tomada de - Carpets, Spain - Tapetes, Turkey - Carpets, Turkey "Bellini" - Carpets, Turkey "Holbein" - Carpets, Turkey "Lotto" - Carpets, Turkey "Ushak" - Chinoiserie - Indo-Portuguese, art - Saint, Francis Xavier, Tomb - Sino-Portuguese, art - Wire rods of gold paper)
* Literature (Almanach Perpetuum - Antonil, Padre Andre Joao - Aristotelianism in Natural Philosophy - Barbosa, Duarte de - Barros, Joao de - Castanheda, Fernao Lopes de - Correia, Gaspar - Frois, Luis - Gois, Damiao de - Lagoa, 4.o Visconde de - Ptolemy's Geography: Graphic Syntax and Projections);
* Politics (AlcAcovas-Toledo, Treaty of - Convention of Goa - Daikan - Diplomacy in the Restoration Period - General Captaincy of Azores - Portugal and Italian Cities (14th-16th Centuries) - Portuguese-British Treaty - Portuguese-English Bilateral Relations - Treaty of Westminster);
* Products (Elephants - Glue - Tea - Tobacco);
* Religion;
* Themes and Facts (Almanacs - Astronomical Navigation - Astronomical Tables - Balestilha - Books of Route - Cartography - Compass - Dutch blockades of Goa - Equador - Height East-West - Height Navigation - India Fleet of 1500 - India Run - Itineraries - Log-books - Loxodromic line - Incindent of Madre Deus - Mocambique, Prazos da Coroa de - Mozambique, Dutch sieges of - Naus, Ribeira das - Nautical Guides - Navy Books - Portolano - Portuguese Nautical Science - Quadrant - Regiment - Rules of Evora - Rules of Munique - Rules of the South Cruise - Secret of Secrets - Shipboard Books - Treaty of Sphere - Zenith Distance - 'Genoese World Map' drawn in 1457);
* Toponyms (Georeferencing - Achem - Adem - Agadir - Santa Cruz do Cabo de Gue - AlcAcer Ceguer - AlcAcer-Quibir - Angra do Heroismo - Ano Bom island - Arguim - Arzila - Ayuthia - Azamor - Bacaim - Baia CabrAlia - Barcelor - Beijing - Belem do ParA - Benguela - Bissau - Brazil - Cacheu - Calicute - Cananor - Cantao - Cape of Good Hope - Ceuta - Ceylon - Chaul - Chicova - Colombo, city of - Coulao - Damao - Dili - Diu - Fernando Po island - Fort Cochin - Fukuda - Funchal - Goa - Hirado - Horta - Ielala, Rocks - Kagoshima - Kupang - Kyoto - Lagos - Lisbon - Luanda - Macau - Madeira - Malacca - Manaus - Mangalor - Mariana - Mascate - Mazagao - Meliapor - Melinde - Mogi, city of - Monbasa - Mocambique island - Mumbai - Nagasaki, city of - Natal - Oita - Omura - Onor - Ormus - Osaka - Ouro Preto - Pegu - Pernambuco - Pernambuco - Ponta Delgada - Praia (Azores) - Praia (Cape Verde) - Prince island - Quelimane - Quiloa - Ribeira Grande (Cape Verde) - Rio de Janeiro - Rios de Sena - Sacramento (Uruguai) - Safi - Sagres - Saint Helena, island - Salvador (Bahia) - Sao Jorge da Mina - Sao Luis do Maranhao - Sao Nicolau, ilha de - Sao Paulo - S. Tome island - Sena - Shimabara - Sion - Socotra island - Sofala - Tangier - Tete - Tokyo - Yokoseura, city of - Zumbo);
* Bibliographies;
* Chronology (British Presence in Asia - Exploration of the Atlantic - Portuguese presence in Morocco and the Mediterranean);
* Currencies/Weights/Measures;
* Genealogies;
* Lists (Achem: Sultans - AlcAcer Ceguer: Captains and Governors - Angamale: Bishops - Angola: Bishops - Angra: Bishops - Arguim: Captains and Governors - Asilah: Captains and Governors - Azemmour: Captains and Governors - Azores: General Captains - Bahia: Bishops - Brazil: Captains - Brazil: Governors and Vice-Roys - Cabo Verde: Bishops - Ceuta: Bishops - Ceuta: Captains and Governors - China: Vice-Provincials - China: Mission Superiors - Cochin: Bishops - Congo: Bishops - Cranganore: Bishops - CuiabA (Prelazia): Bishops - Ethiopia: Bishops - Flores and Corvo: Donatary Captains - Funchal: Bishops - Goa: Bishops, Archbishpos and Patriarchs - Goa: Provincials and Vice-provincials - Goias (Prelazia): Bishops - Capitaes e Governadores de Mocambique - Graciosa: Donatary Captains - India Fleets of the Reign of Filipe I - India Fleets of the Reign of Afonso VI - India Fleets of the Reign of D.HenriqueI - India Fleets of the Reign of Filipe II - India Fleets of the Reign of Filipe III - India Fleets of the Reign of Joao III - India Fleets of the Reign of Joao IV - India Fleets of the Reign of Joao V - India Fleets of the Reign of Jose I - India Fleets of the Reign of Manuel I - India Fleets of the Reign of Pedro II - India Fleets of the Reign of Sebastiao I - India Provinces: Visitors - India Run: Captains and Capitaes-Mor - India: Governors and Vice-roys - Japan and China: Visitors - Japan: Bishops - Japan: Provincials and Vice-Provincials - Japan: Mission Superiors - Macao: Bishops - Macau: Governors and General Captains - Madeira (Funchal) island: Donatary Captains - Madeira (Machico) island: Donatary Captains - Madeira island: General Captains - Malabar:Provincials and Vice-Provincials - Malacca: Bishops - Malacca: Captains - Maranhao: Vice-Provincials - Maranhao: Bishops - Mariana: Bishops - Mazagan: Captains and Governors - Meliapor: Bishops - Mogador: Captains and Governors - Morocco: Bishops - Mozambique (Prelazia): Bishops - Nanjing: Bishops - Olinda: Bishops - Pacem: Sultans - ParA: Bishops - Peking: Bishops - Philippines: Governors - Pico and Faial islands: Donatary Captains - Rio Janeiro: Bishops - Safi: Captains and Governors - Samudera: Sultans - Santa Cruz do Cabo de Gue (Agadir): Captains and Governors - Sta. Maria and S. Miguel: Donatary Captains - Santa Maria island: Donatary Captains - S. Miguel island: Donatary Captains - S. Paulo: Bishops - S.Tome e Principe island: Donatary Captains - S. Tome: Bishops - Society of Jesus: Generals - Solor: Governors - Solor: Major Captains - Tangier: Bishops - Tangier: Captains and Governors - Terceira and S. Jorge: Donatary Captains - Terceira (Praia) island: Donatary Captains - Timor: Governors - Timor: Major Captains);
* Search (Free Search - Search alphabetically - Thematic Search - Auxiliary);
* Contacts;
* Credits (President of the Executive Board, Scientific Coordination, Executive Board, Scientific Committee, Support).

URL http://www.cham.fcsh.unl.pt/eve/index.php?lang=en

Link reported by:
Andre Monteiro (244457--at--soas.ac.uk), forwarded by h-luso-africa--at--h-net.msu.edu and J. B. Owens (owenjack--at--isu.edu), forwarded by trade-routes--at--mm.isu.edu

Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic
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Essential
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under 30

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Inde-Asie centrale : routes du commerce et des idées

2009-05-12T11:01:00.002+10:00

http://asiecentrale.revues.org/index400.html

Les Cahiers d'Asie Centrale 1/2 | 1996
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Table of Contents

Pierre Chuvin
Les Cahiers d’Asie centrale : naissance d’une revue

Dossier. Inde-Asie centrale : routes du commerce et des idées

De la géographie à l’histoire

Audrey Burton - Itinéraires commerciaux et militaires entre Boukhara et l’Inde
Marchands et artisans
Claude Rapin - Relations entre l’Asie centrale et l’Inde à l’époque hellénistique
Sanjyot Mehendale - Begram: along ancient Central Asia and Indian trade routes
Frantz Grenet - Les marchands sogdiens dans les mers du Sud à l’époque préislamique
Razia Mukminova - Les routes caravanières entre villes de l’Inde et de l’Asie centrale : déplacements des artisans et circulation des articles artisanaux
Maria Szuppe - En quête de chevaux turkmènes. Le journal de voyage de Mîr ‘Izzatullâh de Delhi à Boukhara en 1812-1813
K. Warikoo - Trade Relations between Central Asia ans Kashmir Himalayas during the Dogra Period (1846-1947)

De l’architecture à la musique

Galina Pugačenkova - La genèse centre-asiatique des minarets indiens
Monique Kervran - Entre l’Inde et l’Asie centrale : les mausolées islamiques du Sind et du sud Penjab
Aleksandr Džumaev - Migrations des musiciens des villes de Transoxiane et développement de la science musicale en Inde (XVIe-XVIIe siècles)

Les religions et leurs fidèles

Margarita Filanovič and Zamira Usmanova - Les frontières occidentales de la diffusion du bouddhisme en Asie centrale
Jürgen Paul - Influences indiennes sur la naqshbandiyya d’Asie centrale ?
Bahtijar Babadžanov- Zahîr al-Dîn Muhammad Mîrzâ Bâbur et les Shaykh Naqshbandî de Transoxiane
Thierry Zarcone - Une route de sainteté islamique entre l’Asie centrale et l’Inde : la voie Ush-Kashgar-Srinaga

Lectures politiques de l’Asie centrale
Boris Kočnev - Les Moghols et l’Asie centrale, à travers les monnaies de Shâh Jahân figurant dans les trésors centre-asiatiques
Marc Gaborieau - L’Asie centrale dans l’horizon de l’Inde au début du XXe siècle : à propos d’une lettre de Sayyid Ahmad Barelwî à l’émir de Boukhara
Gilles Boquerat - Du bond en avant au retour en arrière, évolution de la perception indienne de l’Asie centrale au cours du XXe siècle

Vue de l’extérieur
Michel Tardieu - Le Tibet de Samarcande et le pays de Kûsh : mythes et réalités d’Asie centrale chez Benjamin de Tudèle
Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont - Les routes d’Asie centrale d’après le Cihân-Nümâ de Kâtib Çelebî

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Maharashtra District and State Gazetteers, India

2009-03-31T12:51:00.000+11:00

http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/
31 Mar 2009

Maharashtra District and State Gazetteers

Gazetteers Department, Govt of Maharashtra, Mumbai, India.

Self-description:
"[This set of online Gazetteers] not only includes a comprehensive description of the physical and natural features of a region but also a broad narrative of the social, political, economic and cultural life of the people living in a district. The topics on physical features, material resources, history, customs and manners of the people, trade, agriculture, industries, communication [incl. information on historical roads and trade routes of the region - ed.], administrative departments, voluntary social organisations and places of interest in a district are covered. [...] Compilation and publication of the revised District Gazetteers edition was started in 1949."

Site contents [free access, online documents in PDF and html formats]:
* District Gazetteers (1 Aurangabad 1977; 2 Poona 1954; 3 Jalgaon 1962; 4 Ratnagiri 1962; 5 Satara 1963; 6 Kolaba 1964; 7 Nagpur 1966; 8 Parbhani 1967; 9 Amravati 1968; 10 Beed 1969; 11 Sangli 1969; 12 Nanded 1971; 13 Osmanabad 1972; 14 Chandrapur 1972; 15 Dhule 1974; 16 Wardha 1974; 17 Yavatmal 1974; 18 Nashik 1975; 19 Buldhana 1976; 20 Ahmednagar 1976; 21 Solapur 1977; 22 Akola 1977; 23 Kolhapur 1960; 24 Bhandara 1979; 25 Thane 1982; 26 Greater Bombay Part I 1987; 27 Greater Bombay Part II 1987; 28 Greater Bombay Part III 1987); * Gazetteers (in Marathi); * Supplements; * Source Material for a History of the Freedom movement in India; * State Gazetteers (1 Botany Part - I, Medicinal Plants 1953; 2 Botany Part - II, Timbers 1957; 3 Botany Part -III, Miscellaneous Plants 1961; 4 History Part - 1, Ancient Period 1967; 5 History Part - 3, Maratha Period 1968; 6 Maharashtra:Land and its People 1968; 7 Language and Literature 1970; 8 History Part -II, Medieval Period 1972; 9 Fauna 1974; 10 Botany and Flora of Maharashtra 1987; 11 History of Bombay: Modern Period 1987); Reprints of Gazetteers [of the British regime (1874 to 1913)] ((1-3 Gazetteer of Bombay City and Island (1909) Part I-III; 4 Ratnagiri and Sawantwadi District Gazetteer (1880); 5 Khandesh District Gazetteer (1880); 6 Thana District Gazetteer Part I (1882); 7 Thana District Gazetteer Part II (1882); 8 Thana District Gazetteer Part III (1882); 9 Nashik District Gazetteer (1883); 10 Kolaba District Gazetteer (1883); 11 Satara District Gazetteer (1884); 12 Solapur District Gazetteer (1884); 13 Poona District Gazetteer Part I (1885); 14 Poona District Gazetteer Part II (1885); 15 Poona District Gazetteer Part III (1885); 16 Kolhapur District Gazetteer (1886); 17 Ahmednagar District Gazetteer (1884); # Gazetteers of Central Provinces and Berar; 1 Wardha District Gazetteer (1906); 2 Yeotmal District Gazetteer (1908); 3 Buldhana District Gazetteer (1910); 4 Akola District Gazetteer (1910); 5 Amravati District Gazetteer (1911); 6 Nagpur District Gazetteer (1908); 7 Bhandara District Gazetteer (1908); 8 Chanda District Gazetteer (1909); # Gazetteer of The NizamÕs Dominions (Marathwada Region); 1 Aurangabad District Gazetteer (1884)); * About Department.

URL http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Government
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

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Silk Road, Cotton Road or . . . . Indo-Chinese Trade in Pre-European Times

2009-01-16T10:07:00.000+11:00

STEPHEN F. DALE "Silk Road, Cotton Road or . . . . Indo-Chinese Trade in Pre-European Times". Modern Asian Studies, Published online by Cambridge University Press doi:10.1017/S0026749X07003277

Modern Asian Studies Vol. 43 Issue 01, pp 79-88.

"Silk Road, Cotton Road or . . . . Indo-Chinese Trade in Pre-European Times"
STEPHEN F. DALE

OSU Department of History, 367 Dulles Hall, 230 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA Email: dale.1--at--osu.edu

Abstract
India and China were the most important producers of textiles in the world prior to the industrial revolution. However, whereas the Western historiography usually discusses Indian cotton and Chinese silk in connection with European imports, or with their sales in the Indian Ocean and the Middle East, cotton and silk were also exchanged between India and China. Indeed, Indian cotton and Chinese silk were probably the principal manufactured goods exchanged between these civilizations. Although Indian records are fragmentary, especially when compared with the voluminous Chinese sources, Indian cotton goods are known to have reached the Indianized states in Xinjiang in the early Common Era (CE), and may have been produced there, in Khotan and the neighbouring states, by the time that indigenous silk production was known to exist in India in the fourth and fifth centuries CE. Yet, while in later centuries large amounts of cotton cloth were produced in China while indigenous centres of silk production developed in India, exchanges of the finest types of cotton and silk cloth continued, usually driven by cultural and social factors in each civilization.

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The Great [China-Russia 19th c.] Tea Route

2009-01-15T17:32:00.001+11:00

http://www.tearoad.ru/

15 Jan 2009

The Great [China-Russia] Tea Route

www.tearoad.ru, Ulan-ude, Republic of Buryatia, Russia.

Self-description: "The project 'Great Tea Route' aims to use the rich
cultural and historical heritage of the vast territory of Eurasia,
associated with the [bygone] era of the trade routes for tourism
development, [...]."

Site contents:
* Events (Baikal meeting of the project, The Fifth International
Tourism Forum, Business meeting of the project participants in the
Perm region, 2009); * Documents [on tourism development]; * On the Tea
Route (History, Geography [incl. a map of the 19th c. Asia's tea
routes at http://tearoad.ru/WT/sites/tearoad/misc/map2.jpg], Sights,
Bibliography [96 articles and books, all in Russian - ed.]); * News
(Shooting a video on the Great Tea Route, The proposal for tourist-
member project). * Contacts. * Great Way of Tea (The Development Phase
of the project); * Participation in the project (Organizing Committee
Participants); * Plans (The plan of action for 2008, The plan of
action for 2009); * Tours (Tours of Buryatia, Tours in Russia); * All
about tea

[A site exclusively in Russian. Can be translated into other languages
via http://translate.google.com/ or other online tools - ed.]

URL http://www.tearoad.ru/

Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the
time of this abstract]

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Business
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

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Discussion group "Amber Road"

2008-12-01T16:35:00.000+11:00

http://groups.google.com/group/amber-road

Welcome to the discussion group "Amber Road",
providing documentation to reconstruct the ancient amber-trading routes in Europe.

Link to the German version of this Google Group ("Bernsteinstrasse")

http://groups.google.com/group/amber-road

Amber trading at the Hansa trading monopoly (1255-1525)
Last updated by JWR - Nov 24 - 1 author - 1 page long
The amber roads in Normandy
Last updated by JWR - Nov 18 2007 - 1 author - 3 pages long
Natural amber finding locations in Europe
Last updated by JWR - Nov 18 2007 - 1 author - 5 pages long
Amber finding locations in "Naturalis Historia" by Pliny
Last updated by JWR - Nov 18 2007 - 1 author - 2 pages long
Etymology for the word “Amber”
Last updated by JWR - Jul 27 2007 - 1 author - 4 pages long
Overview of Amber Roads and other trading routes
Last updated by Joannes.Rich...@googlemail.com - Jul 25 2007 - 1 author - 1 page long
The Dutch amber trading routes
Last updated by JWR - Aug 23 2007 - 1 author - 4 pages long
Ambur-settlements
Last updated by JWR - Jul 27 2007 - 1 author - 2 pages long

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Baltic Connections 1450-1800

2008-10-30T15:36:00.000+11:00

http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=29280

Baltic Connections
Archival Guide to the Maritime Relations of the Countries around the Baltic Sea (including the Netherlands) 1450-1800
Edited by Lennart Bes, Edda Frankot and Hanno Brand

Publication year: 2007, Leiden: Brill.

In the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, Northern Europe was a crucible of political, maritime and economic activity. Ships from ports all around the Baltic Sea as well as from the Low Countries plied the Baltic waters, triggering market integration, migration flows, nautical innovations and the dissemination of cultural values. This archival guide is an essential research tool for scholars studying these Baltic connections, providing descriptions of almost 1000 archival collections concerning trade, shipping, merchants, commodities, diplomacy, finances and migration in the years 1450-1800. These rich and varied sources kept at more than 100 repositories in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia and Sweden are herewith collected for the first time.

http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=29280

Series: The Northern World, 36
ISBN-13 (i): 978 90 04 16429 1
ISSN: 1569-1462
Cover: Hardback
Number of pages: vol 1: xxxvi, 788 pp; vol 2: xxvi, 822 pp; vol 3: xxvi, 718 pp.
Number of volumes: 3

List price: EUR 315.00 / US$ 450.00

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Trade Routes: four new references

2008-10-21T14:11:00.001+11:00

Munro, John H. 1999.
The Low Countries’ export trade in textiles with the Mediterranean basin, 1200-1600: a cost-benefit analysis of comparative advantages in overland and maritime trade routes. Published in: The International Journal of Maritime History 2 11 (1999): pp. 1-30.
http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10924/

Munro, John H. 2000.
The Changing Fortunes of Fairs in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Warfare, Transaction Costs, and the 'New Institutional Economics'
http://ideas.repec.org/p/tor/tecipa/munro-00-01.html

Galdston, Iago. 1961.
Trade Routes and Medicine.
Bulletin of The New York Academy of Medicine. 1961. May; 37(5): 342–358.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1804663

Blom, Ronald G. 1997.
Space Technology, Ancient Frankincese Trade Routes, and the Discovery of the Lost City of Ubar. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
http://hdl.handle.net/2014/22395

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Trading Places - the East India Company and Asia 1600-1834

2008-10-13T16:13:00.000+11:00

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/trading/home.html
13 Oct 2008

The British Library, London, UK.

Self-description:
"Trading Places - the East India Company and Asia 1600-1834. An exhibition at the British Library 24 May - 22 September 2002. [...] 'Trading Places - the East India Company and Asia' tells a remarkable story. It follows the rise and fall of the Company over 200 years - from its beginnings in London and its first trading post on Asian soil to its expansion into India, China, Indonesia, Japan and Persia until the eventual loss of its trading monopoly in 1834."

Site contents:
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION: * World in 1600 (Background, Iberian Exploration, Dutch Exploration, England, Foundation of the East India Company); * Getting There (Shipbuilding, First Voyage, On Board Ship, Hazards, Cargoes); * Bantam (Where is Bantam?, The Dutch, Market, Making Contact); * Expansion (Why Expand?, Japan, Iran, Yemen); * India (Why India?, Culture & Curiosity, Factors & Forts, Private Trade, Textiles, Politics); * China (Why China?, Trade, Silk, Porcelain, Tea, Opium); * Impacts (Final Years of the EIC, Overview, Asia on Britain, Britain on Asia); * Search. * Contact us; * SIte Map.

URL http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/trading/home.html

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/trading/home.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20070610062850/http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/trading/home.html

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* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Library
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Useful
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- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

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The export trade in silk and brocade during the Ming dynasty

2008-10-08T13:57:00.003+11:00

http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31946367

An electronic copy of a thesis

Author: Lau, Hoi-tung
Title: The export trade in silk and brocade during the Ming dynasty
Persistent Link: http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31946367
Date/Publisher: 1966 by University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong)
Language: English
Subjects: Silk industry - China | Brocade
Format: Adobe Acrobat PDF

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Tibet's tea trade with Szechuan and other regions in the Ch'ing dynasty

2008-10-08T13:54:00.001+11:00

http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31946422

An electronic copy of a thesis

Author: Wong, Hong-hin, Owen
Title: A historical analysis of Tibet's tea trade with Szechuan and other regions in the Ch'ing dynasty
Persistent Link:
http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31946422
Date/Publisher: 1966 by University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong)
Pagination: 458 leaves : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: Chinese
Dept/Program: Chinese
Degree: Master of Arts
LC Subject: Tea trade - China.
Tea trade - Tibet.
China - Commerce - History.

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4 books on Trade and Trade Routes in Ancient India

2008-09-26T13:05:00.001+10:00

* Chandra, Moti. 1977. Trade and Trade Routes in Ancient India. New Delhi: Abhinav Publications.

* Mookerji, Radha Kumud. 1999. Indian Shipping: A History of the Sea-Borne Trade and Maritime Activity of the Indians From the Earliest Times. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.

* Prasad, Prakash Charan. 2003. Foreign Trade and Commerce in Ancient India. New Delhi: Abhinav Publications.

* Srivastava, Balram. 1968. Trade and commerce in ancient India: from the earliest times to c. A.D. 300. Varanasi: Varanasi: Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office.

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History of Postal Communications in India

2008-09-26T12:30:00.003+10:00

http://www.stampsofindia.com/readroom/SDHPC.htm

Deogawanka, Sangeeta. 2008. History of Postal Communications in India.

Part 1-3 - Ancient India [land and maritime routes],
Part 4-5 – Medieval India (1030 – 1757 AD) - Structure of the land postal systems in Pre-Mughal period,
Part 6-9 – Medieval India (1030 – 1757 AD) - Structure of the postal systems in Mughal period,
Part 10 – Medieval India (1030 – 1757 AD) - An analytical overview.

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Historic Camel Photos

2008-09-16T11:25:00.004+10:00

Historic Camel Photos - China, Mongolia and India (www.camelphotos.com, US)
http://www.camelphotos.com/camels_china.html
[* 1902 The Nankow Pass. A small camel train and some donkeys from Mongolia enroute to Peking, passing through the Pa-ta-ling Gatway of the Great Wall of China. * 1880's A Bactrian camel pulling a supply sled. * 1901 Camel Square in Peking, China. * 1908 Along the Great Wall in Peking, a pack train of Bactrian camels. * 1907 Bactrian pack camels hailing the loads along the Great China Wall. * 1932 Bactrian camels packing supplies in Peking China, along the Great China Wall. * A Caravan of large Bactrian camels packing goods outside the City Walls of Peiping, China. * 1900's Bactrian camel Caravan. * 1890's Pack trian of Bactrian camels. * 1912 India, Two camels pulling a old Indian camel wagon. * 1908 India, two camels pulling a dubble decker wagon. * Jalpur, India. Camel adorned with tassels. * 1897 India, The Lieutenant Governor's Camel Carriage, Bengal. * Indian, Early 1900's. Camel transport. Indian Ferry, Mooltan. * 1918 Peking, Lastkamele. A small caravan of Bactrian camels. * Early 1900's Smyrne - Caravane de Chameaux.]

Historic Camel Photos - Central Asia and Russia (www.camelphotos.com, US)
http://www.camelphotos.com/camels_asia.html
[* Pre. 1917 Camels on the Tashkent road pulling a wagon full of wagon wheels. * Village Douranlar, Working Camels . * 1916 Russian: "Tashkent. Street in the old city." Bactrian camel with pack saddle. * Bactrian camel. * Pre. 1917, Orenburg, village life. * Pre. 1917, Orenburg, Kirgiz water carriers. * 1930 Kazakh man riding a Bactrian camel. * Pre. 1917 Kirgiz man riding a Bactrian camel, Margelan area. * Bactrian Camel Caravan, . * Pre. 1917 Turkestan Types. * Pre. 1930 Orenburg, RPh, Bactrian camels pulling wagons. * 1916 Russia Central Asia. Bactrian pack camels. * Old Russia, Caucasus camels in Pyatigorsk. Mt. Beshtau in the background. * 1928 Russia, F-2 Hybrid Bactrian camels in the Moscow Zoo. * Constantinople, Turkey. * A dromedary camel caravan camped at the gates of old Damascus, Syria. * 1897 A caravan of camels on the lower road to Bethan, SE from Jerusalem, Palestine.]

Historic Camel Photos - Middle East Camels (www.camelphotos.com, US)
http://www.camelphotos.com/middle_east.html
[* Cairo, dromedary camels with packs crossing the Kasr en-Nil Bridge. * 1890's Camels and horses resting outside the Wall of David. * 1907 Donkey and camels. * Camel pulling a water cart. * Nomadic tribal camel men. * 1904 The Dead Sea, a train of dromedary camels. * Suez Canal, pack camels loaded onto a barge. * Sahara, Algeria. Camel caravan. * Egypt 1880, A train of camels crossing a floating bridge. * 1880's Egypt, Suez, Moses Wells. * 1907 Egypt, Exposition Coloniale 1907. * 1896 Cairo, Egypt. Palanquin carried between two camels. * 1911 Egypt. Camel marriage procession. * Egypt, 2 dromedary camels pulling a stage coach. * 1905 Jerusalem. * 1905 Camel loaded down with the people. * 1870s Egypt. * Camel market. * 1890's Large camel caravan. * Camel races.]

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The Economics of Inland Transport in in Late Medieval Bavaria

2008-08-28T12:20:00.001+10:00

Hauling Away in Late Medieval Bavaria:
The Economics of Inland Transport in an Agrarian Market
by Michael Toch

The Agricultural History Review, Vol. 41 part 2 (1993), pp.111-123
http://www.bahs.org.uk/41n2a2.pdf [1.5MB strong]

Abstract
Using the mid-fourteenth-century accounts of the Bavarian monastery of Scheyern (to the north of Munich), the article scrutinizes the way late medieval landlords went about the organization of transport. Most intricate were the arrangements for the yearly recurring ventures sent into the Southern Tyrol to purchase, cart, and ship home the excellent vintages of Latin wine. For most of the relay route, hired can'iers were employed, but one stage was turned over to tenants owing the monastery carting services. Other transport needs nearer home made for less complicated arrangements, using a mix of hired labour, permanent servants, and the monastery's own rolling stock and beasts. No attempts were made to improve the technological level of transport, relying instead on a very flexible organization of monetary and labour resources attuned to local circumstances.

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Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400–1800

2008-08-07T14:14:00.000+10:00

Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400–1800
Muzaffar Alam
University of Chicago
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
University of California, Los Angeles

Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780521780414)
DOI: 10.2277/0521780411
Published February 2007

http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521780414

BP 55.00
A groundbreaking work based on detailed and sensitive readings of travel accounts in Persian, dealing with India, Iran, and Central Asia between about 1400 and 1800. This is the first comprehensive treatment of this neglected genre of literature (safar nama) that links the Mughals, Safavids and Central Asia in a crucial period of transformation and cultural contact. The authors’ close reading of these travel-accounts help us enter the mental and moral worlds of the Muslim and non-Muslim literati who produced these valuable narratives. These accounts are presented in a comparative framework, which sets them side by side with other Asian accounts, as well as early modern European travel-narratives, and opens up a rich and unsuspected vista of cultural and material history. This book can be read for a better understanding of the nature of early modern encounters, but also for the sheer pleasure of entering a new world.
• The first comprehensive treatment of early modern Indo-Persian travel accounts • Compares Persian accounts with other Asian and early modern European travel narratives • A major contribution to the literature of cultural contact in the early modern world.

Contents
1. Introduction: the travel-account from Beijing to the Bosphorus; 2. From Timur to the Bahmanis: fifteenth-century views; 3. Courtly encounters; 4. An ocean of wonders; 5. When hell is other people; 6. An eastern mirror; 7. The long road to rum; 8. On early-modern travel.

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Routing the Commodities of Empire through Sikkim (1817-1906)

2008-08-06T11:27:00.002+10:00

Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:40:28 +0200
From: Jonathan Curry-Machado (j.currymachado--at--londonmet.ac.uk)
To: [...]
Subject: New Commodities of Empire working paper

Dear all,

The Commodities of Empire project is pleased to announce the publication of the latest addition to the Commodities of Empire Working Papers series:

No.9, Vibha Arora, 'Routing the Commodities of Empire through Sikkim (1817-1906)'

This can be downloaded from the Commodities of Empire website, at http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/ferguson-centre/commodities-of-empire/working-papers/abstract-vibha-arora-aug08.htm

Best regards,

Jonathan

Jonathan Curry-Machado
Coordinator
Commodities of Empire Project

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Army Logistics - A Short History

2008-08-02T07:19:00.006+10:00

http://www.forces.gc.ca/admmat/logbranch/handbook/volume1/chap3_e.htm
Morales, A.L. 2000. A Handbook on the Canadian Forces Logistics Branch. Canada National Defence, Logbranch Secretariat.

CHAPTER 3 - LOGISTICS - A SHORT HISTORY

http://www.forces.gc.ca/admmat/logbranch/handbook/volume1/chap3_e.htm

* 3 methods of acquiring supplies on the move:
(a) baggage train which travels with the army;
(b) local supplies which are "purchased (or taxed) from the population near or along the army's route of march";
(c) stockpiles of supplies which are pre-positioned "at fixed bases along the route of march [... and are] brought forward by wagon to the army as required, or alternatively the soldiers [... could] pick the supplies up as they marched by these fixed bases."

[...]

* "The combination of local supply of food and forage, and of self-containment for weapons and services, appears often in ancient history as the logistical basis for operations by forces of moderate size. [...]

* During the mid 14th century, there were two broad strategies that an invading army might adopt, namely raiding strategies lasting some 50 days and persisting strategies in which the intent was to permanently occupy the territories the invader passed through and generally lasting 6 months or more. The supply methods appropriate to each were clearly different.

* There were always a large number of non-combatants who accompanied a medieval army especially during persisting invasions. But even on a raid, as much as 50% of the army was non-combatant - carpenters, blacksmiths, tailors, armorers, fletchers, cooks, bakers, whores and the like. The non-combatants in a persisting force might be double that. Hence the supply problem for an army of 10,000 combatants might be as much as 20,000 people.

* A combatant at that time normally subsisted for a day on 0.106 gallons of wine, 107 grams of meat and 1.04 kilograms of bread. The caloric value of this ration was about 3950 calories.

* By the middle of the 14th century, many invasion armies were entirely mounted. A force of 10,000 combatants might have 20,000 horses and it is estimated that each horse would consume 25 kilograms of green fodder in one day and hence collectively they would consume 500 tons of green fodder (or 200 tons of dry fodder) in a day.

* And so the magnitude of the supply and transportation problem in the 14th century was clear! For an Army of 10,000 combatants, the supply problem was the care and feeding of up to 20,000 people and 20,000 horses plus the stores of ammunition and other non-perishable items. Needless to say, this problem persisted into the 15th and 16th centuries
[...]

* It is worthy of note that at this time in the early 1800s, the soldier's daily ration was one and a half pounds of bread or one pound of biscuit, one pound of meat and a ration of wine or spirits. The number of pack-mules required to carry these rations for a Wellington's army of 53,000 men was close to 9,000."

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Dutch Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean in the 17th c.

2008-06-19T17:42:00.003+10:00

http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jwh/14.2/vink.html

Markus Vink, "'The World's Oldest Trade': Dutch Slavery and Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean in the Seventeenth Century," Journal of World History, June 2003, Vol.14, No.2.

[http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jwh/14.2/vink.html]

Markets of Supply: Origins of Slaves
Markets of Demand: Destinations of Slaves
Routes to Slavery
Slave Occupations
Size of Dutch Slavery and Volume of the Slave Trade
Slave Resistance and Slave Revolt

Conclusion
Following the discovery of the seasonal monsoon regime sometime after 300 B.C.E., the societies and cultures of the Indian Ocean basin became integrated in a regional world-system. As the world's oldest trade, trafficking in captive labor involved, among other things, the migration of peoples, cultural diffusion, and economic exchange. Arriving in the Indian Ocean in the late sixteenth century, the Dutch took over and interacted with preexisting systems of slavery and dependency. Like its Indian Ocean predecessor, the Dutch Indian Ocean slave trade was urban-centered, drawing captive labor from three interlocking and overlapping circuits or subregions: "Greater South Africa," South Asia, and Southeast Asia. [...] The number of company and total Dutch slaves and the accompanying volume of the annual slave trades fluctuated greatly. In the late seventeenth century, there were about 4,000 company slaves and perhaps 60,000 total slaves. In order to replenish these numbers, 200–400 company slaves and 3,200–5,600 total slaves had to be imported each year. Assuming an average mortality rate en route of 20%, 240–480 company slaves and 4,476–7,716 total Dutch slaves had to be exported from their respective catchment areas. [...]

Notes [note 1- note 110]

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Centro de Historia de Alem-Mar / The Centre for Overseas History (CHAM)

2008-05-27T14:19:00.002+10:00

http://cham.fcsh.unl.pt/

27 May 2008

Universidade Nova de Lisboa & Universidade dos Acores, Portugal.

Self-description: "The Centre for Overseas History promotes diverse activities integrated within the scope of the study of the History of the Discoveries and the Portuguese Expansion [...]."

Site contents:
* Activities; * Research Fields [2007-2010] (# Political and Social Frameworks of the Portuguese Empire, # The Arts and the Portuguese Colonial Experience, # Cultural Exchanges and Globalization, # Elites and the Portuguese Empire, # The Portuguese and the Islamic World, # Religion and the Portuguese Expansion, # Overseas Economies and Trade Networks);
* Researchers;
* Research Projects (# The Nobility and the State of India in the 16th century. # BBB - Bombay Before the British. The Portuguese Legacy at the Bombay Peninsula's Territory. # EVE - E-Cyclopaedia of Portuguese Expansion, 15th-18th centuries. # Sources for the History of the Portuguese Estado da India in the 17th-18th centuries. The "Coleccao Junta da Real Fazenda do Estado da India". # In the Name of the Honour: The Commissioners for the Holy Office and for the Military Orders in Portugal, 1570-1773. # Portuguese Jesuits in East Asia in the 16th-17th centuries. # Lower Nobility and "Nobreza da Terra" in the Formation of the Empire: the Atlantic Archipelagos. # Portugal and South Morocco: Contacts and Clashes, 15th-18th centuries. # PIAS - Study, Monitorization and cultural heritage valuation of the archaeological sites [in] Angra [...]. # Portuguese Interactions with Persia during the Iberian Union (1580-1640). The "Comentarios" by D. GarcIa de Silva y Figueroa);
* Theses (Post-Doc projects under preparation by CHAM researchers, PhD Theses under preparation by CHAM researchers, Master Theses under preparation by CHAM researchers, PhD Theses presented by CHAM researchers, Master Theses presented by CHAM researchers);
* Library (General Catalogue [of more than 4,000 works], The Aubin Collection);
* Publications (Periodical Publications, Theses, Studies and Documents, Sources for the History of the Portugueses Estado da India, Other Publications);
* Online Research Tools (Revista Penelope, Genealogies of the Viceroys and Governors of the State of India in the 16th century, Database about the holders of military and administrative posts in the "Estado da India" in the 16th century, E-Cyclopaedia of Portuguese Expansion, Other Research Tools (Azores Virtual Learning Centre, Azorian Archive - 1st Series, Virtual Library of Historical Cartography from the 16th to the 18th centuries), Nuevo Mundo-Mundos Nuevos / Novo Mundo-Mundos Novos [e-journal];
* Board; * Cooperation; * Clipping [CHAM in the Portuguese newspapers].

URL http://cham.fcsh.unl.pt/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://cham.fcsh.unl.pt/

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[Electronic] Historical Atlas of South India

2008-05-03T13:28:00.000+10:00

http://www.ifpindia.org/histatlas/
03 May 2008

[Electronic] Historical Atlas of South India

Institut Francais de Pondicherry / French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP), Pondicherry, India

Self-description:
"[...] The first phase [of the project - ed.] was completed early in 2005 and the outcome was a prototype for the Pudukkottai (Central Tamil Nadu) region, which works both from a CD-Rom and on the Internet. This work provided the team an opportunity to explore multidisciplinary approaches in research using IT&C, with History and Archaeology on one hand and GIS and Informatics on the other hand. The prototype CD-Rom has already been used to present the project at various seminars and workshops, and has also been sent to scholars who would be interested in working with us in the future phases. In the current phase of the project (starting from 2005 May onwards), we intend to extend the scope to the entire states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, as well as two pilot areas in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka [...]. The idea behind initiating the two new pilot areas is to prepare for the extension of the project area further north so that the entire South India could be covered during the subsequent phase. The primary source of data for Tamil Nadu will be contributed by the Department of Epigraphy and Archaeology, Tamil University, Thanjavur. [...]

[Web version of the prototype on Historical Atlas of South India] "The bulk of the basic materials comes from the epigraphic records (nearly 9,000) for the period from AD 600 to 1600. Archaeology provides resources for the pre-600 period. Literature is useful as a supplementary source. Besides these original sources, there are a few secondary works, particularly on art, which provide data for the maps. The photo collection of IFP provides also material for illustrations. Clicking next, you will now have an overview of the Atlas, but with information on Pudukottai area only."

Site contents:
* Time Line (Stone Age, New Stone Ahe, Iron Age [(Megalithic], Ancient History I [Sangam], Ancient History II [Pre-Pallava], Medieval I [Pallava], Medieval II [Chola], Medieval III [Vijayanagar]);
* Knowledge (Political, Cultural, Social, Economic);
* Team (Subbarayalu, Y. (French Institute of Pondicherry - IFP) - Project Co-ordinator, Rajan, K. (Tamil U., Thanjavur), Aloka Parasher Sen (Central U., Hyderabad), Rajan Gurukkal. P.M. (Mahatma Gandhi U., Kottayam), Kesavan Veluthat (Mangalore U.), Balasubramanian, D. (IFP), Frederic Borne (IFP));
* Sources [a bibliography over 90 books and articles in English - ed.]

URL http://www.ifpindia.org/histatlas/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ifpindia.org/histatlas/

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Georeferenced locations of historical Chinese and Japanese temples

2008-04-22T14:04:00.003+10:00

An invaluable item for anyone studying pilgrimage and travel to religious places in ancient China and Japan.

http://www.mountainsongs.net/

21 Apr 2008
Mountain Songs - [Ancient] Chinese Poetry [and georeferenced Temples]

www.mountainsongs.net, San Francisco, CA, US.

Self-description:
"Mountain Songs, Shanzhige, is a bilingual, database website, fully searchable, which connects ancient (and some modern) Chinese poetry to the sites where the poetry was written or written about. It enables you to experience the same sights that the poets themselves viewed hundreds of years ago."

Site contents:
* MOUNTAINS (a photograph and related Items [Poems, Poets, Temples, Other] for each of the following 152 mountains - Badachu Xishan; Baihefeng; Baitashan; Baodingshan; Beigushan; Beishan Dazu; Beiyue Hengshan; Bilianfeng; Cangshan; Chamundi Hill; Chichengshan; Cuiluoshan; Damingshan; Daqingshan; Daxiangshan; Dayuling Big Rice Barrel Ridge; Dinh Hoanh Son; Doddabetta; Dongshan Guiyang; Dongshan Huangmei; Dongshan Shangyu; Emeishan Moth Eyebrow Mountain; Fangshan; Fanjingshan; Fansipan Peak; Fenghuangshan Hangzhou; Fenghuangshan Tongguan; Fuboshan; Fufengshan; Guishan; Gushan Fuzhou; Gushan Hangzhou; Gushan Huizhou; Guxiufeng; Hagurosan; Haleakala; Hanyan Cold Cliff; Hemingshan; Hieizan; Houjusan; Huaguoshan; Huangshan Yellow Mountain; Huashan China Glory Mountain; Huoyanshan; Japan Alps; Jefferson; Jiaoshan; Jingshan; Jingshan; Jingtingshan; Jinshan; Jinshan Shanghai; Jiuhuashan; Jiulishan; Jiuzongshan; Kakeyamoku Iao Needle; Kinkeisan; Koyasan; Kugamisan; Kurokamiyama; Laoshan; Leshan; Lingyangshan; Longhushan Dragon Tiger Mountain; Lumenshan Luofushan; Lushan Hut Mountain; Maonshan; Maijishan Haystack Mountain; Maoshan; Mingshashan; Mingyan; NanPutuoshan; Nanshan Dazu; Nanshan Xiangyang; NanWutaishan; Nanyue Hengshan; Nilgiri Hills; Onnaminusan; Panlongshan; Pingposhan; Pipashan Longmen; Pomoshan; Putuoshan; Qianlingshan; Qilianshan; Qilinshan; Qingcheng Houshan; Qingchengshan Emerald City Mountain; Qingxiushan; Qingyuanshan; Qixingyan; Qiyunshan Greedy Cloud Mountain; Sanweishan; Shaoshishan; Shennufeng (Wushan); Sheshan; ShiGushan; Shijingshan; Shimenshan; Shizhongshan Stone Bell Mountain; Songshan; Suribachi; Taibaishan Shanxi; Taishan; Taishishan; Tavan Bogd; Tian Son Vietnam; Tianmushan; Tianshan; Tiantaishan Guizhou; Tiantaishan Heaven Terrace Mountain; Tianzhushan Heaven's Pillar Mountain; Tongbaishan; Wanshoushan; Western Ghats; Wudangshan; Wurufeng; Wutaishan Five Terrace Mountain; Wuyishan; Xiangbishan; Xianglufeng Lushan; Xianglufeng Shaoxing; Xiangshan; Xiangshan; Xiangshan (Dongshan) Longmen; Xianshan; XiaoJiuhuashan; Xiongershan; Xishan; Xishan Kunming; Xishan Longmen; Xuedoushan; Xuefengshan Snow Mountain; Yamadera; Yandangshan; Yinshan Gansu; Yinshan Neimenggu; Youbishan; Yueliangshan; Yuelushan; Yulongxueshan; Yunjushan; Yunlongshan; Yuquanshan; Yushan; Yuzhaishan; Zhongnanshan Far South Mountain; Zhurongfeng; Zijinshan; Zuanshitou; Zuobishan);

* POEMS (texts of the 820 poems in the vernacular and translation, plus the related Items: Mountains, Temples, Other);

* POETS (biographical notes and related Items: [Poems, Mountains, Temples, Other] for each of the 246 poets from the period 350 BC - 1961 AD);

* TRANSPOETS (images and biographical notes for the following people: Arthur Waley, Beata Grant, Burton Watson, Charles Q. Wu, David Hinton, David McCraw, Dongbo, Gary Snyder, Irving Yucheng Lo, John Thompson, Jon Kowallis, Jonathan Chaves, Kenneth Rexroth, Liam Kelley, Mike O'Connor, Paul Hansen, Paul Kroll, Paula Varsano, Qiu Xiaolong, Red Pine-Bill Porter, Ron Egan, Shigeyoshi Obata, Zhong Ling);

* TEMPLES (photographs, notes, georeferenced locations [using GoogleMap], and related Items: [Poems, Poets, Mountains, Other] for each of the 602 temples in China, India, Japan, Mongolia, and Vietnam);

* OTHER (photographs and notes on 1046 places in China, India, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, and Vietnam, plus the details of the related Items [Poems, Poets, Mountains, Temples]);

* SEARCH; * TRAVELS WITH DONGBO; * ABOUT US; * CONTACT US.

URL http://www.mountainsongs.net/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mountainsongs.net/

Link reported by: Gary Flint (gary.actasia--at--gmail.com), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu

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Spice Ports: The Nutmeg and Pepper Trade

2008-03-31T16:32:00.001+11:00

artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/english/cdaeley/hwc22/plans.htm

[Preliminary bibliography from Austin College, Sherman, Texas]

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Ports of the Arabian Peninsula : a guide to the literature.

2008-03-31T13:34:00.001+11:00

http://dro.dur.ac.uk/161/

Dodgeon, H. and Findlay, A. M. (1979) Ports of the Arabian Peninsula : a guide to the literature. Working Paper. University of Durham, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Durham.

Full text available in PDF format
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Arabian Trade and Pilgrimage Routes - 2003 lectures

2008-03-31T12:33:00.002+11:00

http://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/mappingarabia/lectures/lectures.html

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Lectures
MAPPING THE TREASURES OF ARABIA

28 January - 21 March 2003

There is to be a series of public lectures accompanying the exhibition, initiated and organised by Marian Bukhari, presented in association with LMEI (London Middle East Institute) and the Department of Art & Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, chaired by Dr. Anna Contadini:

5th February
Dr Geoffrey King
"Coastal Pilgrim routes from Syria to the holy cities"
12th February
John Lawton
"Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh trade routes"
19th February
Dr Majeed Khan
"Petroglyphs and Rock Art of Arabia"
26th February
Jonathan Potter
"Cartography and the mapping of Arabia"
5th March
Dr. Martin Lings
"Mecca, Madinah and the Pilgrimage"
12th March
Dr Saad Al Rashid
"Darb Zubaidah and the Hajj routes"
19th March
Dr Mustafa Aksay
"Hejaz Railway as one of the Hajj routes"

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