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The Worlds of the Indian Ocean Philippe Beaujard (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris)

The Worlds of the Indian Ocean By Philippe Beaujard (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris)

The Worlds of the Indian Ocean by Philippe Beaujard (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris)

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

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The Worlds of the Indian Ocean: A Global History by Philippe Beaujard (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris)

Europe's place in history is re-assessed in this first comprehensive history of the ancient world, centering on the Indian Ocean and its role in pre-modern globalization. Philippe Beaujard presents an ambitious and comprehensive global history of the Indian Ocean world, from the earliest state formations to 1500 CE. Supported by a wealth of empirical data, full-color maps, plates, and figures, he shows how Asia and Africa dominated the economic and cultural landscape and the flow of ideas in the pre-modern world. This led to a trans-regional division of labor and an Afro-Eurasian world economy. Beaujard questions the origins of capitalism and hints at how this world-system may evolve in the future. The result is a re-orienting of world history, taking the Indian Ocean, rather than Europe, as the point of departure.

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'... an ambitious and thoroughly comprehensive book ... It will be a standard reference volume for many generations of anthropologists, archaeologists, economic historians and classicists interested in the deep history of the Indian Ocean.' Chapurukha M. Kusimba, Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

About Philippe Beaujard (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris)

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

Table of Contents

Volume 1. 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-systems 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. Volume 2. Part I. The Indian Ocean between Tang China and the Muslim Empire (7th Through 10th Centuries); Introduction; 1. Tang China and the rise of the Silk Roads; 2. Islam. The conquest of lands and oceans; 3. India. A core with four centers; 4. Southeast Asia. The rise of the Sriwijayan Thalassocracy and the Javanese Kingdoms; 5. East Africa. Dawn of the Swahili culture; 6. Madagascar (7th Through 11th Centuries). Early Cultural Metissages; Part II. Globalization during the Song and Mongol Periods (10th-14th centuries), and the downturn of the 14th century; Introduction; 7. China. The golden age of the song, the Mongol conquest and the Ming revival; 8. India: from the Chola Empire to the Delhi sultanate; 9. Southeast Asia. From the decline of Sriwijaya to the rise of Mojopahit; 10. Central and Western Asia. From the Seljuk Empire to the Ilkhanids; 11. Egypt and Yemen. The Jewish and Karimi networks; 12. East Africa. The rise of the Swahili culture and the expansion of Islam; 13. Madagascar. The development of trading ports and the interior; Part III. From the Globalization of the Afro-Eurasian Area to the Dawn of European Expansion (15th and Early 16th Centuries); Introduction; 14. Ming China, from expansion to withdrawal into threatened territory; 15. India. The flowering of the sultanates and the expansion of Vijayanagara; 16. Southeast Asia: era of the merchant sultanates; 17 Western Asia: revival of the Persian Gulf; 18. Egypt and Yemen. Advances in state trade and the end of the Karimi; 19. East Africa and the Comoros; 20. Madagascar (15th-16th centuries): the rise of trading ports and development of the Highlands; 21. The Portuguese in the Indian Ocean; Epilogue.

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NPB9781108341271
9781108341271
1108341276
The Worlds of the Indian Ocean: A Global History by Philippe Beaujard (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris)
Philippe Beaujard (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris)
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Cambridge University Press
2019-10-24
2100
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