Reading list

• Baer, Marc, Islamic Conversion Narratives of Women: Social Change and Gendered Religious Hierarchy in Early Modern Ottoman Istanbul, Ingår i: Gender & history, vol. 16, nr. 2, 2004, s. 425–458Obligatorisk*
• Benton, Lauren, Legal Spaces of Empire: Piracy and the Origins of Ocean Regionalism, Ingår i: Comparative studies in society and history: an international quarterly, vol. 47, nr. 4, 2005, s. 700–724Obligatorisk*
• Bowen, H.V., Uncertain beginnings: The East India Company, 1600-1709, Ingår i: Monsoon traders: the maritime world of the East India Company, London, Scala Publishers, 2011, s. 22–57Obligatorisk*
• Dalrymple, William, The last Mughal: the fall of a dynasty, Delhi, 1857, London, Bloomsbury, 2007Obligatorisk* (Pages to be announced.)
• Emmer, Pieter, The Organisation of Global Trade: The Monopoly Companies, 1600-1800, Ingår i: European review : interdisciplinary journal of the Academia Europaea, vol. 22, nr. 1, 2014, s. 106–115Obligatorisk*
• Everts, Natalie, Social Outcomes of Trade Relations: Encounters Between Africans and Europeans in the Hubs of the Slave Trade on the Guinea Coast, Ingår i: Migration, Trade, and Slavery in an Expanding World: Essays in Honor of Pieter Emmer, vol. 2, s. 141–162Obligatorisk* (Available as an E-book.)
• Hunt, Margaret; Stern, Philip, The Mughal Siege of Bombay, Historiska institutionen, 2015Obligatorisk* (Excerpts to be handed out.)
• Kooria, Mahmood, Between the Walls of Archives and Horizons of Imagination: An Interview with Amitav Ghosh, Ingår i: Itinerario, vol. 36, 2012, s. 7–18Obligatorisk*
• Larson, Pier M, Colonies Lost: God, Hunger, and Conflict in Anosy (Madagascar) to 1674, Ingår i: Comparative studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East., vol. 27, nr. 2, 2007, s. 345–366Obligatorisk*
• Lemire, Beverly., Cotton, Johanneshov, MTM, 2014Obligatorisk* (chapter 2 Bound up with Cotton: World Markets, Global Trade and Cotton Histories, c 1300–1800. pp 7–32)
• Metcalf, Barbara Daly; Metcalf, Thomas R., A concise history of modern India, 2. ed., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006Obligatorisk* (pp 1–27)
• Ogborg, Miles, Writing Travels: Power, Knowledge and Ritual on the English East India Company's Early Voyages, Ingår i: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers: published on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), vol. 27, nr. 2, 2002, s. 155–171Obligatorisk*
• Ottoman lyric poetry: an anthology, Expanded edition, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2006Obligatorisk* (Selection to be announced.)
• Parthesius, Robert, Dutch ships in tropical waters: the development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) shipping network in Asia 1595-1660, 2010Obligatorisk* (Pages to be announced.)
• Quataert, Donald., The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005Obligatorisk* (chapter 8 Ottoman Society and popular culture, pp 142–173 chapter 9 Inter-communal co-operation and conflict, pp 174–201)
• Roy, Kaushik, Horses, Guns and Governments: A Comparative Study of the Military Transition in the Manchu, Mughal, Ottoman and Safavid Empires, circa 1400 to circa 1750, Ingår i: International area studies review, vol. 15, nr. 2, 2012, s. 99–121Obligatorisk*
• Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, Courtly Encounters: Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2012Obligatorisk*
• Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700: A Political and Economic History, Hoboken, John Wiley & Sons, 2012Obligatorisk* (chapter 3, pp 59–86)
• Veres, Madalina Valeria, Unravelling a Trans-Imperial Career: Michel Angelo de Blasco's Mapmaking Abilities in the Service of Vienna and Lisbon, Ingår i: Itinerario, vol. 38, nr. 2, 2014, s. 75–100Obligatorisk*
• Ward, Kerry., Networks of Empire: Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008Obligatorisk* (Chapter 2 Evolution of governance and Forced Migration.)

Images of Dutch art and Mughal art and architecture, to be shown in class.

Early Modern English and Portuguese music (please await listening instructions).

* Obligatorisk