Worlds of the Indian Ocean - A Global History

Volume 1 reorients world history, placing the Indian Ocean, not Europe, at the center of the globalization of the pre-modern world.

List of contents

Prologue: the geography of the Indian Ocean and the navigation; Part I. The Ancient Routes of Trade and Cultural Exchanges and the First States (6th-2nd Millenia BC): Introduction; 1. The birth of the state; 2. Early Bronze Age I in Western Asia and in Egypt (ca. 3000-2700 BC); 3. Early Bronze Age II (ca. 2700-1950 BC); 4. The new spaces of the Middle Bronze Age in Asia and in Egypt (ca.2000-1750 BC) ; 5. The Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600-1100 BC), an Area Unified around the Eastern Mediterranean ; 6. East Asia. From Villages to States (Ca. 5000-1027 BC); 7. The emergence of intermediary spaces; Conclusion: Were there world-sytems during the Bronze Age?; Part II. The Birth of the Afro-Eurasian World-System (1st Millennium BC-1st Century AD): Introduction; 8. The beginnings of the Iron Age; 9. The roads to the Orient; 10. India. The birth of a new core; 11. Southeast Asia, an interface between two oceans; 12. China. From kingdoms to unification; 13. Arabia. Maritime cultures and the rise of the caravan trade; 14. East Africa: the emergence of a pre-Swahili culture on the Azanian coast; 15. The Austronesian expansion and the first Malagasy cultures.

About the author

Philippe Beaujard is an Emeritus Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut des Mondes Africains, Paris.

Summary

The Indian Ocean replaces Europe at the center of the globalization of the pre-modern world in this first volume examination of how the region's networks of trade, labor, technology, institutions, ideas and culture shaped a pre-modern world system.

Product details

• Authors: Philippe Beaujard, Philippe (Centre National De La Recherch Beaujard, Philippe (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Beaujard
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781108424561
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42456-1
• No. of pages: 946
• Series: The Worlds of the Indian Ocean 2 Hardback Book Set; The Worlds of the Indian Ocean
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / World, General & world history, Asian History, General and world history, Indian Ocean, Groupings linked by seas