Dr Alexander Drost
Research Assistant and
Coordination of the Graduate School
University of Greifswald
Department of History
Domstrasse 9a
D-17487 Greifswald
Germany
Title:
Acculturation and Anglicisation between Empires
Social, Economic and Cultural Patterns of Burial and Commemoration in 17th
and 18th
Century Colonial Settlements...
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Dr Alexander Drost Research Assistant and Coordination of the Graduate School University of Greifswald Department of History Domstrasse 9a D-17487 Greifswald Germany Title: Acculturation and Anglicisation between Empires Social, Economic and Cultural Patterns of Burial and Commemoration in 17th and 18th Century Colonial Settlements Length: 40 pages (double spaced) 10. 363 words
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Cartography
In the Middle Ages, few people in Christendom could ever have seen a map.
Only those
concerned with navigation or scholarship were in a position to come across one.
Then, what
they cast their eyes over were what historians have suggested were essentially two very
different kinds of maps: area maps known as...
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Page 185 Cartography In the Middle Ages, few people in Christendom could ever have seen a map. Only those concerned with navigation or scholarship were in a position to come across one. Then, what they cast their eyes over were what historians have suggested were essentially two very different kinds of maps: area maps known as portolan charts, especially of southern European waters, as attempts to illustrate an itinerary or sailing instructions in diagrammatic form; secondly, and until the thirteenth century, European world maps, which had been devotional objects, intended to evoke God s harmonious design in a schematic form, appropriate, for instance, for an altarpiece. These would appear very strange objects to today s public, encyclopedias of Christian lore and legend that were primarily symbolic reflections of the world and that tried to tailor what was genuinely known about the world to what could be gleaned from biblical scripture. The European cartographic revolution of the
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Coromandel, Europeans and Maritime
Trade
Coromandel is the name given to the flat and agricultural southeastern stretch of India s
coastline.
Fragmented by Page 280 | Top of Articlenumerous river deltas, Coromandel offers
many suitable harbors including Pulicat, Madras (now Chennai), Pondicherry, Cuddalore,
Tranquebar, Karaikal,...
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Coromandel, Europeans and Maritime Trade Coromandel is the name given to the flat and agricultural southeastern stretch of India s coastline. Fragmented by Page 280 | Top of Articlenumerous river deltas, Coromandel offers many suitable harbors including Pulicat, Madras (now Chennai), Pondicherry, Cuddalore, Tranquebar, Karaikal, Nagore, and Nagapattinam. Historically, the region emerged as significant through the production of textiles for export, carried by Muslim Kling and later Chulia merchants as far afield as the Burmese and Thai kingdoms, the sultanates of the Malay peninsula, north and east Sumatra, Java, the Moluccas, the Persian Gulf, and southern Arabia. It is hard to say that any one of these trading ports became preeminent in the early modern period, although with the rise of the kingdom of Golconda and its mining activities, Masulipatnam in north Coromandel became an important regional entrepôt. The scattered locations of Coromandel ports was partly a reflection of the
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