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Indian Ocean imaginings : people, time, and space / edited by Joshua Esler and Mark Fielding.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indian Ocean Region--Politics and government.
- Indian Ocean Region.
- Indian Ocean Region--Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2023]
- Summary:
- This book is a multidisciplinary study of the Indian Ocean region, bringing together perspectives from history, defense and strategic studies, cultural and religious studies, and environmental studies. This collection examines both the continuity and change of the region, as well as its unity and diversity.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- Part I: Region, Space, and Place
- Chapter 1: Imagining the Indian Ocean: Oceanic Spaces, People, and Discourses
- New Regionalism and Shifting Paradigms
- Porous Boundaries and Mental Remapping
- Indian Ocean Spatial Narratives
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Chapter 2: Unity and Diversity and Unity in Diversity: People, Time, Space, and the Social Imaginary in the Indian Ocean World
- Space
- Time
- People
- Merchants
- Missionaries
- Migrants
- Part II: Diverse Identities, Communities, and Histories
- Chapter 3: Sultana: The Biography of an Indian Ocean Vessel
- The Omani-Zanzibari Maritime State
- From Bombay to New York, From Zanzibar to London
- Chapter 4: Penang and the Maritime Trade of Tamil Muslims, 1778-1800 CE
- Tamil Muslims Merchants in the Indian Ocean, c. Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries
- EIC and the Establishment of Penang
- Penang and Tamil Muslim Merchants
- Chapter 5: Toward a Periodization of Indian Ocean Maritime History
- The Local Ocean Phase (loci oceanum) 90000 BCE to 3300 BCE
- The Open Ocean Phase (aperta oceanum) 3300 BCE to 1200 BCE
- The Regional Ocean Phase (nostrum oceanum) 1200 BCE to 500 BCE
- Imperial Ocean Phase (imperium oceanum) 500 BCE to 300 CE
- The Transition Phase (mutatio oceanum) 300 CE to 1000 CE
- The Indian Ocean Phase (Indicum oceanum) 1000 CE to 1500 CE
- The Contested Ocean Phase (pugnatum oceanum) 1500 CE to 1800 CE
- The Colonial Ocean Phase (a mare liberum) 1800 CE to 1950 CE
- The Global Ocean Phase (a mare territorio) 1950 CE to Present
- Themes
- Notes.
- Chapter 6: The Portuguese Catholic Tradition and Its Impact on the Colonization of East Timor: A Critical Appraisal
- The Rise and Fall of the Portuguese Seaborne Empire
- The Portuguese Colonization in South East Asia
- Chapter 7: Perth Undergraduate Students' Perceptions of the Relevance of History: Ramifications for Study of the Indian Ocean
- Literature Review
- Methodology
- Results
- Ramifications for Indian Ocean Studies
- Part III: Indian Ocean Nations and Networks
- Chapter 8: Shaping a New Strategic Discourse in the Indo-Pacific with Small Island Nations
- Race for Maritime Dominance in the Indo-Pacific
- The Growing Contention in the Region
- India's Balancing and Engagement Tactics through Island Strategy in the Region
- Japan's Island Disputes and Maritime Cooperation
- The United States' Island Strategy in the Indo-Pacific
- Chapter 9: Indian Ocean Networks: Cable-Laying Companies and the Contingency of Empires
- From Cables of Empire to Fiber-Optic Interdependence
- Discourses, Theories, Sources, and Methods
- Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN)
- SubCom
- Nippon Electric Company (NEC)
- HMN Technologies
- PEACE and US globalism, Don't Mention the Wars
- Part IV: Environment, Culture, and Faith
- Chapter 10: "The Sterility of the Country through Which They Passed Was beyond Description or Belief": Evidence of Drought in Early Colonial Sources in the Indian Ocean Zone of Southern Africa
- Colonial Climates? Source Types for Historical Rainfall Reconstruction
- Methodologies: Standardizing Documentary Evidence for Climate Reconstruction
- A Chronology of Droughts in the Indian Ocean Zone, 1550-1830
- Chapter 11: Deltas as in-between Ecotones: The Sundarbans of Littoral South Asia
- The Bengal Delta and Ecotone
- Colonial Property Rights in the Delta: Fashioning Hard Borders/Edges
- Exploring Bonbibi Johurnama
- The Cult of Bonbibi
- Chapter 12: Dynamics in Indian Ocean Commerce and Culture: Cultural Pluralism in Sri Lanka
- Changing Cultural Landscape
- "Shared Sacred Spaces"
- "Colonial Communities"
- Portuguese Burghers
- Afro-Sri Lankans
- Sri Lanka Malays
- Chapter 13: Religious Syncretism: Chinese Immigration and the Development of Folk Buddhayana Buddhism on the Island of Lombok, Indonesia
- Chinese Immigration and Migration to and within Lombok
- Religion on Lombok
- The Chinese and Islam on Lombok
- The History of Buddhism on Lombok
- Religious Syncretism
- Folk Buddhism as a Result of Religious Syncretism
- The Chinese and Religious Syncretism
- Indonesian Chinese Folk Buddhism
- The Pho Hwa Kong Klenteng Ampenan
- Index
- About the Contributors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-66692-217-X
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