TY  - BOOK
AU  - James L.Gelvin
AU  - Nile Green
TI  - Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print
SN  - 9780520275027
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Islamic civilization
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Technology
KW  - Islamic countries
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "The second half of the nineteenth century marks a watershed in human history. Railroads linked remote hinterlands with cities; overland and undersea cables connected distant continents. New and accessible print technologies made the wide dissemination of ideas possible; oceangoing steamers carried goods to distant markets and enabled the greatest long-distance migrations in recorded history.  In this volume, leading scholars of the Islamic world recount the enduring consequences these technological, economic, social, and cultural revolutions had on Muslim communities from North Africa to South Asia, the Indian Ocean and China. Drawing from a multiplicity of approaches and genres, from commodity history to biography and social network theory, the essays in Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print, 1850-1930 offer new and diverse perspectives on a transnational community in an era of global transformation.  "--
ER  -