Frank Perlin
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
384
1992
The five studies reprinted here have been significantly revised for this publication and are introduced by a new essay placing them in their intellectual context and in the framework of the author?s longer-term purposes. At their basis lies a detailed study of monetary production forms of exchange and processes of state formation in the Indian subcontinent during the early modern centuries. The author?s aim however is then to uncover the hidden fabric of institutions ordinary practices and common knowledge - the infrastructures of a common life that he argues stretched across Asia and Europe a Euro-Asian continuum underlying all regional and local developments. In consequence the articles encompass an increasingly comparative subject matter and reflect critically on the historiography and its methodologies.
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
384
1992
The five studies reprinted here have been significantly revised for this publication and are introduced by a new essay placing them in their intellectual context and in the framework of the author?s longer-term purposes. At their basis lies a detailed study of monetary production forms of exchange and processes of state formation in the Indian subcontinent during the early modern centuries. The author?s aim however is then to uncover the hidden fabric of institutions ordinary practices and common knowledge - the infrastructures of a common life that he argues stretched across Asia and Europe a Euro-Asian continuum underlying all regional and local developments. In consequence the articles encompass an increasingly comparative subject matter and reflect critically on the historiography and its methodologies.