{"product_id":"monsoon-voyagers-an-indian-ocean-history-volume-34-hardcover-2","title":"Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History Volume 34 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFahad Ahmad Bishara\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonsoon Voyagers\u003c\/i\u003e follows the voyage of a single dhow, the \u003ci\u003eCrooked\u003c\/i\u003e, along with its captain and crew, from Kuwait to port cities around the Persian Gulf and Western Indian Ocean, from 1924 to 1925. Through his account of the voyage, Fahad Ahmad Bishara unpacks a much broader history of circulation and exchange across the Arabian Sea in the time of empire. From their offices in India, Arabia, and East Africa, Gulf merchants used the technologies of colonial capitalism--banks, steamships, railroads, telegraphs, and more--to remake their own regional bazaar economy. In the process, they remade the Gulf itself. Drawing on the \u003ci\u003eCrooked\u003c\/i\u003e's first-person logbooks, along with letters, notes, and business accounts from a range of port cities, \u003ci\u003eMonsoon Voyagers \u003c\/i\u003enarrates the still-untold connected histories of the Gulf and Indian Ocean. The Gulf's past, it suggests, played out across the sea as much as it did the land. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePutting a dhow captain's logbooks to imaginative use, Kuwaiti historian Fahad Bishara paints a vivid and richly detailed picture of the maritime world of the Indian Ocean in the early twentieth century. \u003ci\u003eMonsoon Voyagers\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a work of careful scholarship and a captivating, beautifully written narrative.--Amitav Ghosh, author of \u003ci\u003eSea of Poppies\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A very original contribution. The book is a life story of a maritime passage, in all of its intimate detail. From this one voyage, Bishara makes inferences about larger aspects of this body of water and its many imbricated histories. Bishara is an outstanding talent, and this is an outstanding book.\"--Eric Tagliacozzo, author of \u003ci\u003eIn Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Rarely have a scholar's historical imagination and personal voice been so brilliantly on display as in this wonderful rendering of the Kuwaiti dhow captain (\u003ci\u003enakhoda\u003c\/i\u003e) Al-Failakawi's logbook (\u003ci\u003eruznamah\u003c\/i\u003e) of a sea voyage aboard the \u003ci\u003eCrooked\u003c\/i\u003e, from Kuwait across the Arabian Sea to the western Indian coast and back, in 1924-1925. Bishara subtly weaves together a wide range of mainly Arabic sources, both written and oral, to construct 'a thick account of Indian Ocean trade' that animates a complex commercial network as it operated over time and space during a critical transitional period of history. That he brilliantly achieves his goal 'to embed Gulf history back into the Indian Ocean world' is unquestioned; that he does so profoundly is a gift.\"--Edward A. Alpers, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Indian Ocean in World History\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This magisterial, beautifully written account of a Kuwaiti captain's dhow journey around the Indian Ocean is at once intimate and expansive, absorbing and urgent. It draws on the daily sailing logs of the boat, private papers of seafarers and merchants, a deep knowledge of the social and economic history of the region, and a mastery of theories of capital and trade to acquaint the reader with the less familiar currents of commerce and palimpsests of relations in this historically pivotal region of the world.\"--Laleh Khalili, author of \u003ci\u003eSinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula​\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFahad Ahmad Bishara\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of History and Rouhollah Ramazani Professor of Arabian Peninsula and Gulf Studies at the University of Virginia. He is author of \u003ci\u003eA Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 388\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 14, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47293369975033,"sku":"9780520415911","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/cJ6MG1Nyqx9780520415911_ec118cfc-6b97-422a-91e8-e228dc2f1f76.webp?v=1769177607","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/monsoon-voyagers-an-indian-ocean-history-volume-34-hardcover-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}