Free trade was key to the rise of the mighty seafaring kingdoms of Southeast Asia, where a cultural predilection for pluralism, individual liberty and the primacy of contracts played an instrumental role.
Durand and Wallace drew the map of modern Asia. They know the place. And then there’s Gibson: a liberally-educated, middle-aged frog, climbing out of her tropical well. In this…
In this age of H&M, those of us brought up on cheap, mass-manufactured widgets will probably never know the pleasure of living with artisanal…
Design secrets of the Arab dhow plying the Arabian and Indian Ocean trade routes and transporting goods and ideas across the world for millennia.
It is a little known fact that these “African” cloths are not from Africa at all, but have their origins in Indonesia and are manufactured in Holland by a Dutch company called Vlisco for export to Africa.
In Arikamedu, near Pondicherry in South India (of Life of Pi fame), one can find the ruins of a Roman trading settlement dating from the first century C. E.
In a hundred short years, the Jews of Chennai changed the course of world history forever.