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- catalog abstract "This book argues for the existence of a distinctive Indian Ocean world constituted by trade links and commercial networks established over several centuries. Professor McPherson shows that for millennia the Indian Ocean had a profound influence on the lives of the people who lived on its shores. Fishermen, sailors and merchants travelled its waters, linking the world's earliest civilizations from Africa to East Asia in a complex web of relationships. Trade underpinned these relationships but the Ocean was also a highway for the exchange of religious cultures and technologies, giving the Indian Ocean region an identity as a largely self-contained 'world'. The expansion of Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam helped define the boundaries of this 'world' which, by the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, was one of the most prosperous and culturally complex regions on earth. 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. This is an important new text which synthesizes a huge chronological and historiographical range into its compact frame.".
- catalog contributor b8290827.
- catalog coverage "Indian Ocean Region Commerce History.".
- catalog coverage "Indian Ocean Region History.".
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "1. The Early Maritime Trade of the Indian Ocean. The Origins of Maritime Skills and Trade. Regional Variations. Shipping Technologies. Empires, States and Monsoons. The Markets of the Middle East and South Asia. Other Markets. Fishermen, Sailors and Merchants -- 2. Commercial Imperialism. Luxuries, Staples and the Nature of Maritime Trade. The Rise of South Asia. The Impact of the Islamic and Chinese Empires. Beyond the Empires. The Flowering of South East Asian and East African Trade. Indian Ocean Worlds -- 3. The Age of Commerce 1450-1700. An Age of Stereotypes. The Golden Age of Indigenous Trade. The Discovery of Europe. The Portuguese Impact. And even more Europeans. Workers of the Sea -- 4. From Commerce to Industrial Capitalism. The Twilight of Traditional Trade? The Commercial Revolution. Commercial Capitalism -- Integration or Change? Capitalism Triumphant? Mariners, Merchants and Ports. Travellers Old and New. The Twentieth Century.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-289) and index.".
- catalog description "This book argues for the existence of a distinctive Indian Ocean world constituted by trade links and commercial networks established over several centuries. Professor McPherson shows that for millennia the Indian Ocean had a profound influence on the lives of the people who lived on its shores. Fishermen, sailors and merchants travelled its waters, linking the world's earliest civilizations from Africa to East Asia in a complex web of relationships. Trade underpinned these relationships but the Ocean was also a highway for the exchange of religious cultures and technologies, giving the Indian Ocean region an identity as a largely self-contained 'world'. The expansion of Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam helped define the boundaries of this 'world' which, by the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, was one of the most prosperous and culturally complex regions on earth.".
- catalog description "This is an important new text which synthesizes a huge chronological and historiographical range into its compact frame.".
- catalog extent "x, 318 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Indian Ocean.".
- catalog identifier "0195633741 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Indian Ocean.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Indian Ocean.".
- catalog spatial "Indian Ocean Region Commerce History.".
- catalog spatial "Indian Ocean Region History.".
- catalog subject "909/.09824 20".
- catalog subject "DS340 .M4 1993".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Early Maritime Trade of the Indian Ocean. The Origins of Maritime Skills and Trade. Regional Variations. Shipping Technologies. Empires, States and Monsoons. The Markets of the Middle East and South Asia. Other Markets. Fishermen, Sailors and Merchants -- 2. Commercial Imperialism. Luxuries, Staples and the Nature of Maritime Trade. The Rise of South Asia. The Impact of the Islamic and Chinese Empires. Beyond the Empires. The Flowering of South East Asian and East African Trade. Indian Ocean Worlds -- 3. The Age of Commerce 1450-1700. An Age of Stereotypes. The Golden Age of Indigenous Trade. The Discovery of Europe. The Portuguese Impact. And even more Europeans. Workers of the Sea -- 4. From Commerce to Industrial Capitalism. The Twilight of Traditional Trade? The Commercial Revolution. Commercial Capitalism -- Integration or Change? Capitalism Triumphant? Mariners, Merchants and Ports. Travellers Old and New. The Twentieth Century.".
- catalog title "The Indian Ocean : a history of people and the sea / Kenneth McPherson.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".