The Worlds of the Indian Ocean
The Worlds of the Indian Ocean
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USDEurope'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 reorienting of world history, taking the Indian Ocean, rather than Europe, as the point of departure. Volume I provides in-depth coverage of the period from the fourth millennium BCE to the sixth century CE.
- Volume 1 has been thoroughly revised and updated by the author for the first English language edition, including a wide range of full color maps and plates
- Offers a new model for the world-systems approach by examining the possibility that globalization processes existed in ancient world economies
- Re-assesses Braudel's approach and Wallerstein's theory for regions outside of Europe prior to the sixteenth century
Reviews & endorsements
‘… a really interesting journey through the history of all states of Afro-Eurasian World …’ Fabrizio Martino, Global Maritime History
Product details
January 2020Hardback
9781108424561
946 pages
286 × 222 × 45 mm
2.97kg
26 b/w illus. 80 colour illus. 40 maps 15 tables
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Table 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)Â
- 5. The Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600-1100 BC), an Area Unified around the Eastern MediterraneanÂ
- 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.
