Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World

2016-12-19 History

Author : Gwyn Campbell
Release : 2016-12-19
Genre : History
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Download or read book Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World written by Gwyn Campbell. This book was released on 2016-12-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises a selection of essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines that discuss the exchange relationship between Africa and the wider Indian Ocean world (IOW), a macro-region running from East Africa to China, from early times to about 1300 CE. The rationale for regarding this macro-region as a “world” is the central significance of the monsoon system which facilitated the early emergence of long-distance trans-IOW maritime exchange of commodities, peoples, plants, animals, technologies and ideas.

Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to Circa 1900

2019-07-18 History

Author : Gwyn Campbell
Release : 2019-07-18
Genre : History
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Download or read book Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to Circa 1900 written by Gwyn Campbell. This book was released on 2019-07-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Africa's historical relationship with the rest of the Indian Ocean world is one of a vibrant exchange that included commodities, people, flora and fauna, ideas, technologies and disease. This connection with the rest of the Indian Ocean world, a macro-region running from Eastern Africa, through the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia to East Asia, was also one heavily influenced by environmental factors. In presenting this rich and varied history, Gwyn Campbell argues that human-environment interaction, more than great men, state formation, or imperial expansion, was the central dynamic in the history of the Indian Ocean world (IOW). Environmental factors, notably the monsoon system of winds and currents, helped lay the basis for the emergence of a sophisticated and durable IOW 'global economy' around 1,500 years before the so-called European 'Voyages of Discovery'. Through his focus on human-environment interaction as the dynamic factor underpinning historical developments, Campbell radically challenges Eurocentric paradigms, and lays the foundations for a new interpretation of IOW history.

Connecting the Indian Ocean World

2023-02-24 History

Author : Radhika Seshan
Release : 2023-02-24
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Connecting the Indian Ocean World by : Radhika Seshan

Download or read book Connecting the Indian Ocean World written by Radhika Seshan. This book was released on 2023-02-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space. This book and its companion, Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World, explore these connections around the wider Indian Ocean world. The book examines the many overlapping linkages that existed from the early modern period and into the colonial era. It offers a clear understanding of the economic networks that extended across the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic during the 19th century. With a critical historical lens, the volume discusses themes like the opium trade in the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago – the biggest opium trade market at the time; the Safavid mission to Siam; and the economic relationship between Pondicherry and West Africa, via France. Rich in archival material, this book will be of interest for scholars and researchers of Indian Ocean history, maritime history, Indian history, economic and commercial history, South Asian history, and social history, anthropology, and trade relations in general.

Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume II

2019-02-13 History

Author : Angela Schottenhammer
Release : 2019-02-13
Genre : History
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Download or read book Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume II written by Angela Schottenhammer. This book was released on 2019-02-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the emergence and spread of maritime commerce and interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World—the world’s first “global economy”—from a longue durée perspective. Spanning from antiquity to the nineteenth century, these essays move beyond the usual focus on geographical sub-regions or thematic aspects to foreground inter- and trans-regional connections. Focusing on the role of religion in the expansion of commerce and exchange across the region, as well as on technology and knowledge transfer, volume II covers shipbuilding and navigation technologies, porcelain production, medicinal knowledge, and mules as a commodity and means of transportation.

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