Tides of revolution and empire
New histories of the Oceanic South.
Historical accounts of the ‘age of revolution’ between the 18th and 19th centuries and the expansion of the British empire often neglect crucial perspectives of indigenous people in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
In this interview, Sujit Sivasundaram, Professor of World History, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, and Director of Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge, speaks to us about his latest book
Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire.
Drawing from important archival material and the perspectives of ocean-facing people from regions that have not been cast together by land-based cartographies, Sivasundaram tells us how
Madagascar
Myanmar
Australia
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