Yankee India: American Commercial and Cultural Encounters with India in the Age of Sail 1784-1860
Hardbound
2002 · Salem, Massachusetts
by Bean, Susan S.
Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Essex Museum, 2002. Hardbound. VG/VG but with owner's signature in 2 places. Plum cloth with gold lettering on spine; color-illustrated dj with cream and black lettering; 288 pp. with 63 bw and 119 color photographs. Charts the beginnings of America's fascination with the subcontinent. Yankee mariners, sailing from ports along the eastern seabord, became the first Americans to experience the distant and exotic civilization of India. These initial encounters laid the foundation for American views of India and contributed to the development of American and Indian national and cultural sensibilities. (Inventory #: 112399)