Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume I [electronic resource] : Commercial Structures and Exchanges /
Schottenhammer, Angela.editor.
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. Analyzing multi-lingual records and recent archaeological findings, volume I examines mercantile networks, the role of merchants, routes, and commodities, as well as diasporas and port cities.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction -- I. Routes and Connections -- 2. China’s Increasing Integration into the Indian Ocean World until Song 宋 Times: Sea Routes, Connections, Trades -- 3. The Peak of China’s Long-Distance Maritime Connections with Western Asia during the Mongol Period: Comparison with the Pre-Mongol and Post-Mongol Periods -- 4. “He Did Not Kiss the Earth between His Hands”: Arabic Sources on the Arrivals of the Zheng He Fleet in Aden and Mecca (1419–1432) -- II. Commercial Crossroads and New Perspectives on Archaeological Evidence -- 5. Protohistoric and Early Historic Exchange in the Eastern Indian Ocean: A Re-evaluation of Current Paradigms -- 6. Shipwrecks in Southeast Asia: China’s Maritime Trade and the Emerging Role of Arab Merchants in Late First Millennium Indian Ocean Exchange -- 7. Cargoes Human and Otherwise: Chinese Commerce in East African Goods during the Middle Period -- 8. Indic Mercantile Networks and the Indian Ocean World: A Millennial Overview (c. 500–1500 CE) -- III. Official and Contraband Trade in the Nineteenth Century -- 9. Opium in the Indian Ocean Trade in the Early Modern Period: A Commodity of Both Official and Contraband Exchange -- 10. Transfer of Small Arms from Great Britain to Iran (Persia) in the Nineteenth Century -- 11. German Merchants in the Indian Ocean World: From Early Modern Paralysis to Modern Animation -- IV. Diasporas, Trade, and Human Mobility -- 12. Han Chinese Representations of South Sea Merchants in Song China -- 13. Port Cities in the Gulf and the Red Sea during the Long Eighteenth Century (c. 1720–c. 1840): General Characteristics and Some Comparisons with Southeast Asia.
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. Analyzing multi-lingual records and recent archaeological findings, volume I examines mercantile networks, the role of merchants, routes, and commodities, as well as diasporas and port cities.
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