Nile Green is professor of history and Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at UCLA. A former Guggenheim fellow, Green is the prize-winning author of Terrains of Exchange: Religious Economies of Global Islam and Sufism: A Global History, among many other titles.
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A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continent The nineteenth century saw European empires build vast transport networks to maximize their profits from trade, and it sa... SEE MORE