Overview
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
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Keywords
- 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
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Book Title: Between Boston and Bombay
Book Subtitle: Cultural and Commercial Encounters of Yankees and Parsis, 1771–1865
Authors: Jenny Rose
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25205-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25204-5Published: 15 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25207-6Published: 15 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25205-2Published: 06 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 328
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: US History, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Southeast Asia, Cultural History