Overview
- Considers the historical Indian Ocean World as an emerging “global economy,” tracing close interrelationships between commercial exchanges, the spread of knowledge, human movement, and migration
- Covers themes such as maritime trading networks, sea routes, nautical archaeology, official and contraband trade, and human mobility
- Appeals to scholars of Indian Ocean studies, maritime history, economic history, Chinese studies, archaeology, historical geography, and the history of science and technology
Part of the book series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies (IOWS)
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Keywords
- Indian Ocean world trade
- Commerce in the Indian Ocean
- Indian Ocean sea routes
- history of shipbuilding
- human movement
- human-environment interaction
- global economy
- development of mercantile networks
- diasporic communities
- spread of religions
- archaeological discoveries
- knowledge transfer
- history of Islam
- history of Buddhism
- Chinese maritime trade
- Mongol conquest
- Chinese ceramics
- East African trade
- opium trade
Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Routes and Connections
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Commercial Crossroads and New Perspectives on Archaeological Evidence
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Official and Contraband Trade in the Nineteenth Century
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Diasporas, Trade, and Human Mobility
Reviews
“In this innovative volume, Schottenhammer and contributors showcase leading-edge research that traces connections between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. Especially illuminating are the vivid studies that connect China with West Asia through primary, secondary and archaeological sources, including shipwrecks. Together, they demonstrate the historical significance of trading relations between East and West Asia, and set the stage for a reinterpretation of maritime Southeast Asia between the two. A key text in the expanding inter-Asia history library, this volume is essential reading for contemporary geo-strategists of the re-emerging Eurasian and Indo-Pacific realms.” (Engseng Ho, Duke University and National University of Singapore)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume I
Book Subtitle: Commercial Structures and Exchanges
Editors: Angela Schottenhammer
Series Title: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97667-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97666-2Published: 22 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97667-9Published: 13 February 2019
Series ISSN: 2730-9703
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9711
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 401
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Asian History, Cultural History, History of Science