Early Exchange Between Africa And The Wider Indian Ocean World

Author : Gwyn Campbell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319338224

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Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World by Gwyn Campbell Pdf

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.

Author : Gwyn Campbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108578622

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Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to Circa 1900 by Gwyn Campbell Pdf

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.

Author : Edward A. Alpers
Publisher : Markus Wiener Pub
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1558764534

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East Africa and the Indian Ocean by Edward A. Alpers Pdf

For centuries East Africa had an integral place within the Indian Ocean world. While it existed at the periphery of the wider Indian Ocean in earlier periods, by the 18th and 19th centuries it was much more centrally engaged in these affairs.An interregional trade linked different sub-regions of East Africa to other Indian Ocean economies. While slave trading, slave raiding and their consequences provide one thematic focus of this book, Indian Ocean commercial networks were much more complex in the range of products exchanged, including luxury goods and staple food items, as well as enforced labor. Islam provides yet another connective tissue linking Eastern Africa to the Indian Ocean world and a cultural matrix in which popular beliefs and practices were transmitted.This volume brings together a set of important essays published on various dimensions of Eastern Africa's role within the Indian Ocean world written by Edward A. Alpers, Professor of History at UCLA, over four decades. In different ways, each of these papers seeks to demonstrate that one cannot understand the history of eastern Africa without considering its wider regional setting in the western Indian Ocean.

Author : Radhika Seshan,Ryuto Shimada
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000841589

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Connecting the Indian Ocean World by Radhika Seshan,Ryuto Shimada Pdf

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.

Author : Philip Gooding
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009100748

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On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World by Philip Gooding Pdf

The first history of Lake Tanganyika and of eastern Africa's relationship with the wider Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth century.

Author : Edward A. Alpers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195337877

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The Indian Ocean in World History by Edward A. Alpers Pdf

The Indian Ocean in World History explores the cultural exchanges that took place in this region from ancient to modern times.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780521810357

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

Author : Himanshu Prabha Ray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000220735

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The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World by Himanshu Prabha Ray Pdf

This book examines knowledge traditions that held together the fluid and overlapping maritime worlds of the Indian Ocean in the premodern period, as evident in the material and archaeological record. It breaks new ground by shifting the focus from studying cross-pollination of ideas from textual sources to identifying this exchange of ideas in archaeological and historical documentation. The themes covered in the book include conceptualization of the seas and maritime landscapes in Sanskrit, Arabic and Chinese narratives; materiality of knowledge production as indicated in the archaeological record of communities where writing on stone first appears; and anchoring the coasts, not only through an understanding of littoral shrines and ritual landscapes, but also by an analysis of religious imagery on coins, more so at the time of the introduction of new religions such as Islam in the Indian Ocean around the eighth century. This volume will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of archaeology, anthropology, museum and heritage studies, Indian Ocean studies, maritime studies, South and Southeast Asian studies, religious studies and cultural studies.

Author : Pedro Machado
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107070264

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Ocean of Trade by Pedro Machado Pdf

Ocean of Trade offers an innovative study of trade, production and consumption across the Indian Ocean between the years 1750 and 1850. Focusing on the Vāniyā merchants of Diu and Daman, Pedro Machado explores the region's entangled histories of exchange, including the African demand for large-scale textile production among weavers in Gujarat, the distribution of ivory to consumers in Western India, and the African slave trade in the Mozambique channel that took captives to the French islands of the Mascarenes, Brazil and the Rio de la Plata, and the Arabian peninsula and India. In highlighting the critical role of particular South Asian merchant networks, the book reveals how local African and Indian consumption was central to the development of commerce across the Indian Ocean, giving rise to a wealth of regional and global exchange in a period commonly perceived to be increasingly dominated by European company and private capital.

Author : Martha Chaiklin,Philip Gooding,Gwyn Campbell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030425951

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Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World by Martha Chaiklin,Philip Gooding,Gwyn Campbell Pdf

This book examines trades in animals and animal products in the history of the Indian Ocean World (IOW). An international array of established and emerging scholars investigate how the roles of equines, ungulates, sub-ungulates, mollusks, and avians expand our understandings of commerce, human societies, and world systems. Focusing primarily on the period 1500-1900, they explore how animals and their products shaped the relationships between populations in the IOW and Europeans arriving by maritime routes. By elucidating this fundamental yet under-explored aspect of encounters and exchanges in the IOW, these interdisciplinary essays further our understanding of the region, the environment, and the material, political and economic history of the world.

Author : Angela Schottenhammer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319978017

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Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume II by Angela Schottenhammer Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Pearson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137566249

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Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World by Michael Pearson Pdf

Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World is a collection which covers a long time span and diverse areas around the ocean. Many of the essays look at the Indian Ocean before Europeans arrived, reminding the reader that there was a cohesive Indian Ocean. This collection includes empirical studies and essays focused on particular area or production. The essays cover various aspects of trade and exchange, the Indian Ocean as a world-system, East African and Chinese connections with the Indian Ocean World, and the movement of people and ideas around the ocean.

Author : Rila Mukherjee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811665813

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India in the Indian Ocean World by Rila Mukherjee Pdf

The book integrates the latest scholarly literature on the entire Indian Ocean region, from East Africa to China. Issues such as India's history, India’s changing status in the region, and India's cross-cultural networking over a long period are explored in this book. It is organized in specific themes in thirteen chapters. It incorporates a wealth of research on India’s strategic significance in the Indian Ocean arena throughout history. It enriches the reader's understanding of the emergence of the Indian Ocean basin as a global arena for cross-cultural networking and nation-building. It discusses issues of trade and commerce, the circulation of ideas, peoples and objects, and social and religious themes, focusing on Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. The book provides a refreshingly different survey of India’s connected history in the Indian Ocean region starting from the archaeological record and ending with the coming of empire. The author’s unique experience, combined with an engaging writing style, makes the book highly readable. The book contributes to the field of global history and is of great interest to researchers, policymakers, teachers, and students across the fields of political, cultural, and economic history and strategic studies.

Author : Joshua Esler,Mark Fielding
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781666922172

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Indian Ocean Imaginings by Joshua Esler,Mark Fielding Pdf

This book is a multidisciplinary study of the Indian Ocean region, bringing together perspectives from the disciplines of history, defense and strategic studies, cultural and religious studies, and environmental studies. From the earliest exchanges through Sumerian and Harappan trade, to emerging geopolitical alliances in the twenty-first century, this volume demonstrates both the continuity and change of the region as well as its unity and diversity. The expanse of this ocean and its littoral rim is connected through the social imaginary, which enables these processes. It is with the stories of the peoples inhabiting this rim that this book is concerned—told both through micro studies of the everyday lives of the region’s people and through macro studies centered around civilizations, empires, nation-states, and climate change.

Author : Shihan de S. Jayasuriya,Richard Pankhurst
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 086543980X

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The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean by Shihan de S. Jayasuriya,Richard Pankhurst Pdf

Although much has been written about the African Diaspora in the Atlantic Ocean, the Diaspora in the Indian Ocean is virtually unrecognised. Concerned with Africans who lived south of the Sahara and were dispersed by free will or forcefully to the non-African lands in the Indian Ocean region, this book deals with a topic that has been overlooked for too long. Eight scholars researching in distinct geographical areas and with interdisciplinary expertise offer a comprehensive and informative account of the Diaspora in the Indian Ocean.