
Sovereigns of the Sea
Omani Ambition in the Age of Empire
Seema Alavi(Author)
Penguin (Publisher)
Published on 5. December 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
456 pages
978-0-14-346428-0 (ISBN)
Description
This definitive book on the Sultans of Oman is a thrilling historical account of their action-packed battles, daring expeditions, epic triumphs and ingenious politics in the long nineteenth century. It puts the optic of 'micro-history' on their fascinating lives as they navigated the geopolitics of their time and propelled the politics of the Western Indian Ocean. It offers a comprehensive and in-depth examination of the ambitions of the Omani patriarch Sultan Sayyid Said and his four sons and shows how integral they were to the political culture of the region.
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Language
English
Place of publication
India
Publishing group
Penguin Random House India
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
630 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-346428-0 (9780143464280)
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SEEMA ALAVI is a professor of history at Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana. She earned her PhD from Cambridge University, England, and has twice been a Fulbright Scholar and a Smuts Visiting Research Fellow at Cambridge. In 2010, she was at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard as the William Bentinck-Smith Fellow.