The Indian Ocean World Podcast
History
Professor Michael Christopher Low (Iowa State University and NYU Abu Dhabi) discusses his new book, Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020). Key themes include technological change, disease, and the British and Ottoman Empires in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
More information about the book can be found at: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/imperial-mecca/9780231190770
More of Prof. Low’s work is available at his Iowa State profile and at his NYU Abu-Dhabi profile.
This podcast was produced with the help of Renée Manderville (Project Manager, IOWC), Philip Gooding, and Archisman Chaudhuri (both postdoctoral fellows, IOWC, McGill).
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