Indian Ocean histories : the many worlds of Michael Naylor Pearson
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Indian Ocean histories : the many worlds of Michael Naylor Pearson
Routledge, 2020
- : hbk
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book offers a global history of the Indian Ocean and focuses on a holistic perspective of the worlds of water. It builds on maritime historian Michael Naylor Pearson's works, his unorthodox approach and strong influence on the study of the Indian Ocean in viewing the oceanic space as replete with human experiences and not as an artefact of empire or as the theatre of European commercial and imperial transits focused only on trade.
This interdisciplinary volume presents several ways of writing the history of the Indian Ocean. The chapters explore the changing nature of Indian Ocean history through diverse themes, including state and capital, regional identities, maritime networking, South Asian immigrants, Bay of Bengal linkages, the East India Company, Indian seamen, formal and informal collaboration in imperial networking, scientific transfers, pearling, the issues of colonial copyright, customs, excise and port cities.
The volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of global history, modern history, maritime history, medieval history, Indian history, colonial history and world history.
Table of Contents
List of figures. List of tables. List of contributors. Preface.
Introduction: Indian Ocean histories.
Part I: Historiographies, methodologies and scale in the Indian Ocean
1. The Indian Ocean: global nexus (1500-1800). 2. The sodden archive: Africa, the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean.
Part II: Case studies
3. The Kakatiyas, Motupalli and the Southern Bay of Bengal linkages. 4. Regional identities, maritime networking and Islamic conversions in fifteenth-century Java. 5. Brokers and go-betweens within the Portuguese State of India (1500-1700). 6. South Asian settlers at Batavia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 7. Physicians, surgeons, merchants and healers: production, circulation and reconfiguration of knowledge in eighteenth-century Portuguese India. 8. Indian seamen (lascars), shipboard labor regime and the East India Company in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Part III: New histories
9. Hazards and history on the Western Australian coast: the 'Pearling Fleet Disaster' of 1887. 10. Landscape, Rajah and wax prints: contemporary archaeologies of India in Mozambique. 11. Littoral shell tracks: tracing Burma's transregional pearl histories.
Part IV: Reminiscences
12. Michael Naylor Pearson: the discipline of history, the sea and the man. 13. Afterword.
Index.
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