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Author : K. N. Chaudhuri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1985-03-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521285429
Before the age of Industrial Revolution, the great Asian civilisations constituted areas not only of high culture but also of advanced economic development.
Author : K N Chaudhuri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8121500613
Author : Kristian Kristiansen,Thomas Lindkvist,Janken Myrdal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108425414
Provides the first global analysis of the relationship between trade and civilisation from the beginning of civilisation until the modern era.
Author : K. N. Chaudhuri
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521316812
This book explores the dynamic interaction between economic life, society and civilisation in the regions around and beyond the Indian Ocean during the period from the rise of Islam to 1750. Within a distinctive theory of comparative history, Professor Chaudhuri analyses how the identity of different Asian civilisations was established. He examines the structural features of food habits, clothing, architectural styles and housing; the different modes of economic production; and the role of crop raising, pastoral nomadism, and industrial activities for the main regions of the Indian Ocean. In an original and perceptive conclusion, the author demonstrates how Indian Ocean societies were united or separated from one another by a conscious cultural and linguistic identity. However, there was a deeper structure of unities created by a common ecology, technology, technology of economic production, traditions of government, theory of political obligations and rights, and a shared historical experience. His theory enables the author to show that the real Indian Ocean was an area that extended historically from the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf to the sea which lies beyond Japan.
Author : Stefan C. A. Halikowski Smith
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781443830447
The Indian Ocean World was an idea borne out by researchers in economic history and trade in the 1980s in response to the compartmentalization of specific area studies within the wider rubric of Asian civilisations and culture. Professor Kirti N. Chaudhuri’s books Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company (1978), and then Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean (1985), figured amongst the forefront of this new movement in historical thinking, undertaking detailed historical analysis, first of the English East India Company, and then a comparative cultural history of Asian material life and civilisation. Today, historians continue to hold on to the idea of an Indian Ocean world, although studies now follow a number of different threads, from themes like linguistics and creolization, to the seeds of national consciousness. By presenting a number of studies here, gathered into the themes of ‘Intermixing,’ ‘The World of Trade’ and ‘Colonial Paths,’ it is hoped we can render tribute to one of the outstanding historians in this field and reflect the plenitude of current research in this subject area.
Author : Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya,Om Prakash
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Indian Ocean
ISBN : 8131732231
Author : Abdul Sheriff
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Dhows
ISBN : 1849040087
The wooden dhow, with its characteristic lateen sail, is an appropriate icon for the early trading world of the Indian Ocean. It was based on free trade unhindered by monopolies or superpower domination and pre-dated 'globalisation' by thousands of years. It carried a motley crew of sailors, traders and passengers, and many commodities, but the dhow was not merely an inanimate transporter of goods and people, but an animated means of social interaction. The dhow was at the mercy of the seasonal monsoons, but mercifully this very fact multiplied opportunities for social interaction between the sailors and traders with their hosts around the rim of the Indian Ocean, giving birth to cosmopolitan populations and cultures. The dhow was thus a vehicle for a genuine dialog between civilizations. The global world of the Indian Ocean had matured by the fifteenth century. Islam was the most widespread religion along its rim, but it had spread not by the sword but through peaceful commerce. The heroes of this world were not the continental empires but a string of small port city-states, from Kilwa in East Africa to Melaka in Malaysia. Nor was their influence confined to the littoral, but penetrated deep into continental hinterlands economically, socially and culturally. Into this world two major incursions occurred from opposite directions, the Chinese expeditions in the early fifteenth century and the Portuguese at the end of it. The contrast could not have been more stark between the Indian Ocean tradition of free trade that the Chinese espoused, despite their enormous strength, and the Vasco da Gama epoch of armed mercantilism that ultimately led to colonial domination. This sweeping and vividly written popular history of the dhow cultures contains dozens of color illustrations and many maps and is set to become the benchmark history of the early Indian Ocean.
Author : Lincoln Paine
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101970355
A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of the sea—revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world’s waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human. The Sea and Civilization is a mesmerizing, rhapsodic narrative of maritime enterprise, from the origins of long-distance migration to the great seafaring cultures of antiquity; from Song Dynasty human-powered paddle-boats to aircraft carriers and container ships. Lincoln Paine takes the reader on an intellectual adventure casting the world in a new light, in which the sea reigns supreme. Above all, Paine makes clear how the rise and fall of civilizations can be linked to the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history.
Author : Sanjeev Sanyal
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789386057617
Much of human history has played itself out along the rim of the Indian Ocean. In a first-of-its-kind attempt, bestselling author Sanjeev Sanyal tells the history of this significant region, which stretches across East Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent to South East Asia and Australia. He narrates a fascinating tale about the earliest human migrations out of Africa and the great cities of Angkor and Vijayanagar; medieval Arab empires and Chinese ‘treasure fleets’; the rivalries of European colonial powers and a new dawn. Sanjeev explores remote archaeological sites, ancient inscriptions, maritime trading networks and half-forgotten oral histories, to make exciting revelations. In his inimitable style, he draws upon existing and new evidence to challenge well-established claims about famous historical characters and the flow of history. Adventurers, merchants, explorers, monks, swashbuckling pirates, revolutionaries and warrior princesses populate this colourful and multifaceted narrative. The Ocean of Churn takes the reader on an amazing journey through medieval geopolitics and eyewitness accounts of long-lost cities to the latest genetic discoveries about human origins, bringing alive a region that has defined civilization from the very beginning.
Author : Ashin Das Gupta,Michael Naylor Pearson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : India
ISBN : UCSD:31822003700127
This collection of essays surveys the history of maritime India from 1500 to 1800, focusing on trade and economic history as well as on the activities of European merchants and local traders. It convincingly argues that even though the Europeans often traversed the Indian Ocean to trade, their presence was not crucial to India's economic stability.
Author : Michael Pearson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137566249
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 : Kenneth McPherson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015038552074
By the sixteenth century Europeans were part of this world as partners in trade with the indigenous peoples, but from the eighteenth century this economic relationship changed as the economies of the Indian Ocean world integrated with the capitalist economies of the West. The change from commercialism to capitalism ended the insularity of the Indian Ocean world and began its integration, as a region, into the global economy and its territorial division amongst various European powers. This transition altered the ancient web of regional relationships and, with the arrival of European settlers and rulers, added yet another layer to the palimpsest of cultures which flourished on the shores of the Ocean. By the twentieth century the Ocean was no longer a major force binding the peoples on its shores in a selfconscious entity, but the legacy of the past is still evident in their common religious, cultural and historical experience.
Author : Satish Chandra
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1987-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015015377982
The contributors present historical, political, geographical and economic analyses of the Indian Ocean from antiquity to modern times. They provide new information on the role of Asian traders and navigators in the growth of trade and commerce, and the impact of the Europeans on Asian economies.
Author : Raoul McLaughlin
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473840959
This study of ancient Roman shipping and trade across continents reveals the Roman Empire’s far-reaching impact in the ancient world. In ancient times, large fleets of Roman merchant ships set sail from Egypt on voyages across the Indian Ocean. They sailed from Roman ports on the Red Sea to distant kingdoms on the east coast of Africa and southern Arabia. Many continued their voyages across the ocean to trade with the rich kingdoms of ancient India. Along these routes, the Roman Empire traded bullion for valuable goods, including exotic African products, Arabian incense, and eastern spices. This book examines Roman commerce with Indian kingdoms from the Indus region to the Tamil lands. It investigates contacts between the Roman Empire and powerful African kingdoms, including the Nilotic regime that ruled Meroe and the rising Axumite Realm. Further chapters explore Roman dealings with the Arab kingdoms of southern Arabia, including the Saba-Himyarites and the Hadramaut Regime, which sent caravans along the incense trail to the ancient rock-carved city of Petra. The first book to bring these subjects together in a single comprehensive study, The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean reveals Rome’s impact on the ancient world and explains how international trade funded the legions that maintained imperial rule.
Author : Milo Kearney
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Indian Ocean Region
ISBN : 0415312779
The history of the Indian Ocean provides a snapshot of many of the key issues in world history.