Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume II

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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.
Examines the role of Buddhist, Hindu, and Islamic religious networks in the development of trade and commerce in the India Ocean World Considers the historical Indian Ocean World as an emerging “global economy,” tracing close interrelationships between commercial exchanges, the spread of knowledge, human movement, and migration Appeals to scholars of Indian Ocean studies, maritime history, the history of science and technology, the history of religion, archaeology, and historical geography

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Angela Schottenhammer

Themen in »Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume II«

Indian Ocean world exchange Religions of the Indian Ocean World Buddhism Maritime trade Maritime crossings Trade networks of the Indian Ocean World Vaisnavism Islam across the Indian Ocean Shipping in the Indian Ocean Early shipbuilding technology transfer of knowledge Indian ocean seafaring history of the global economy intra-Asian connections Islamization of Southeast Asia

Stimmen zu »Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume II«

“This volume provides a timely reminder that the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific was an active zone for millennia. The scholarly essays brought together by Angela Schottenhammer testify that the historical Indo-(Western) Pacific needs to be much better understood than ever before in our world of shifting power centres.” (Wang Gungwu, University Professor, National University of Singapore)

“This second installment of Schottenhammer's Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World expands beyond trade and its diaspora. Across the long stretch from the Indian Ocean to the South China Sea, or West Asia to East Asia, the plot is thickened with wide-ranging studies on the intertwining of religion, trade and state through time. Essays on the circulation of shipbuilding techniques, ceramics and medicines, whether continuous or episodic, display the surprising and forgotten wealth of exchanges that constituted the lifeblood of this pioneering stage of global interconnectivity. Both volumes lay the challenge of early globalization squarely at the doorstep of Chinese history.” (Engseng Ho, Professor of Anthropology and History, Duke University, USA)

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