Yankee India,9781890206291

Yankee India

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ISBN13: 9781890206291
ISBN10: 1890206296
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-07-17
Publisher(s): Mapin Publishing Gp Pty Ltd
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Summary

Built around mariners' journals of their pioneering voyages, Yankee India charts the early development of commercial and cultural relations between the United States and India in the Age of Sail. Material embodiments of India at the time such as prints, paintings, and figurines depicting Indian scenes and people; "hubble-bubbles", idols, fans, and other souvenirs; as well as goods like bandannas, palampores, and shawls, augment and illustrate the story. Previously untapped archives and collections of the Peabody Essex Museum, whose founders were captains and super-cargoes in the Asia trade, provide the principal resources.

These first encounters between the United States and India in the Age of Sail laid the foundation for American views of India and contributed to the development of American and Indian national and cultural sensibilities. Yankee India brings this important but little known episode to a wide range of readers interested in the histories of the United States and India, and in the impacts of cultural encounters.

Table of Contents

Director's Foreword 6(1)
Sponsor's Foreword 7(1)
Acknowledgments 8(1)
Map
9(2)
Introduction: American Encounters with India in the Age of Sail 11(16)
Part I: Pioneering the India Trade
Bridging the Divide
27(18)
Benjamin Carpenter, Master Mariner
45(4)
From the Journal of the Ruby, 1789-90
49(18)
Benjamin Carpenter
Part II: Halcyon Days of Neutral Trade
Heyday of the India Trade
67(20)
Dudley Leavitt Pickman, Encounter with the East
87(6)
From the Journal of the Belisarius, 1799-1800
93(16)
Dudley L. Pickman
From the Journal of the Derby, 1803-04
109(12)
Dudley L. Pickman
Part III: Transformations and New Encounters
Transitions
121(16)
William Augustus Rogers, Republican, Lawyer, and Merchant
137(6)
From the Journal of the Tartar, 1817-18
143(32)
William A. Rogers
Part IV: The Doldrums
Decline of the Trade
175(20)
James B. Briggs, Commander
195(4)
From the Journal of the Apthorp, 1833
199(12)
James B. Briggs
Part V: Revival
Gruff Goods, Transcendentalism, and the Bhagavad Gita
211(14)
Edwin Blood, Supercargo's Clerk
225(6)
From the Journal of the Rockall, 1854
231(36)
Edwin Blood
Epilogue: First Impressions 267(4)
Notes 271(13)
Index 284

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