Titlebook: Connectivity in Motion; Island Hubs in the I Burkhard Schnepel,Edward A. Alpers Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2

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A Hub of “Local Cosmopolitans”: Migration and Settlement in Early Eighteenth to Nineteenth-Century P In this layered history are intertwined ethno-spatial-economic histories, competing for space in a restricted port and business cum residential area, encircled on three sides by mountains and the fourth, by the sea, leaving little room for expansion. How these different cultural and economic groups

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The Making of a Hub Society: Mauritius’ Path from Port of Call to Cyber Islandadigm. Lying roughly halfway between the Cape of Good Hope and India, Mauritius provided a welcome intermediate anchoring point and shelter in the vastness of the sea during the age of sail. Originally starting as a maritime hub, the expertise and functions that Mauritius acquired and developed in t

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Dis/Entangled Hubs: Connectivity and Disconnections in the Chagos Archipelagoains of circulation to and from these Indian Ocean islands qualify them as a hub. The chapter explores the Chagos Archipelago as a military hub, a social hub, and an environmental hub, and introduces the concept of dis/entangled hubs to explain how real and imagined hubs, which may appear to work or

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Big Men Politics and Insularity in the Maldivian World of Islandstatuses by exploiting insular resources in order to establish themselves as hubs in a portfolio of networks. I further suggest that their ability to transfer assets from one network to another is crucial to their ability to maintain superior societal positions. I elaborate on this by drawing connect

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Considering the Island Capital Male’ as a Hub for Health-Related Mobilitiesthe capital of the Republic of Maldives, plays in them. Through the example of the care-intensive inherited blood disorder thalassemia, it is demonstrated that the Maldivian archipelagic setting, with a population scattered across hundreds of islands, is a challenging terrain for providing and seeki

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From Salsette to Socotra: Islands across the Seas and Implications for Heritage of Mumbai, as a result of several land reclamation projects. Though densely settled, Salsette is known for the 109 Buddhist caves located on the hill of Kanheri on the northern side of the island in a protected forest area termed the Borivali National Park. Richly sculpted and inscribed with donati

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