Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume I Commercial Structures and Exchanges /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Schottenhammer, Angela (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
• Θέματα: World history.; Asia-History.; Civilization-History.; History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Asian History.; Cultural History.; History of Science.

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 o...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.