The Indian Ocean in world history / Edward A. Alpers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alpers, Edward A., author.

Series:

New Oxford world history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World history.

History.

Indian Ocean Region--Civilization.

Indian Ocean Region.

Civilization.

Indian Ocean Region--History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 pages).

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A sweeping and meaningful perspective on the Indian Ocean world through accounts of cultural exchange from Alexander the Great to the new alliances and global interventions of today, The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions, yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and around its shores from the third millennium B.C.E. to the present. Edward A. Alpers explores cultural exchange in the Indian Ocean Rim region, combining a historical approach with insights from anthropology, art history, and geography. The Indian Ocean witnessed significant diasporas during the past two millennia, including migrations of traders, civil servants, and slaves throughout the entire basin. Alpers explores the cultural exchanges that diasporas cause, telling stories of identity and cultural transformation through language, popular religion, music, dance, art and architecture, and social organization. The Indian Ocean in World History discusses trade and production, showing the history of exchange throughout the Indian Ocean world; politics and empire-building by both regional and European powers; and the role of religion, focusing on Islam, but also exploring Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity. Using a broad geographic perspective, the book includes references to connections between the Indian Ocean world and the Americas. Moving into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Alpers looks at the new configurations of colonial boundaries after World War I and the search for oil reserves. Book jacket.

Contents:

Imagining the Indian Ocean

The ancient Indian Ocean

Becoming an Islamic sea

Intrusions and transitions in the early modern period

The long nineteenth century

The last century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Alpers, Edward A. Indian Ocean in world history.

ISBN:

9780199721795

OCLC:

855157516

Access Restriction:

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