The worlds of the Indian Ocean : a global history : a revised and updated translation
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The worlds of the Indian Ocean : a global history : a revised and updated translation
Cambridge University Press, 2019
- v. 1
- Other Title
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Les mondes de l'océan Indien
De la formation de l'État au premier système-monde afro-eurasien : 4e millénaire av. J.-C.-6e siècle ap. J.-C
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  Aomori
  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
Originally published in France as: Les mondes de l'océan Indien
Original title of v. 1: De la formation de l'État au premier système-monde afro-eurasien : 4e millénaire av. J.-C.-6e siècle ap. J.-C
"Translated and updated from the original French edtion"--T.p. verso
Vol. 1. From the fourth millennium BCE to the sixth century CE
Includes bibliographical references (p. [643]-765) and indexes
ISBN for 2 vols. set: 9781108341271
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Europe's place in history is re-assessed in this first comprehensive history of the ancient world, centering on the Indian Ocean and its role in pre-modern globalization. Philippe Beaujard presents an ambitious and comprehensive global history of the Indian Ocean world, from the earliest state formations to 1500 CE. Supported by a wealth of empirical data, full color maps, plates, and figures, he shows how Asia and Africa dominated the economic and cultural landscape and the flow of ideas in the pre-modern world. This led to a trans-regional division of labor and an Afro-Eurasian world economy. Beaujard questions the origins of capitalism and hints at how this world-system may evolve in the future. The result is a reorienting of world history, taking the Indian Ocean, rather than Europe, as the point of departure. Volume I provides in-depth coverage of the period from the fourth millennium BCE to the sixth century CE.
Table of Contents
- Prologue: the geography of the Indian Ocean and the navigation
- Part I. The Ancient Routes of Trade and Cultural Exchanges and the First States (6th-2nd Millenia BC): Introduction
- 1. The birth of the state
- 2. Early Bronze Age I in Western Asia and in Egypt (ca. 3000-2700 BC)
- 3. Early Bronze Age II (ca. 2700-1950 BC)
- 4. The new spaces of the Middle Bronze Age in Asia and in Egypt (ca.2000-1750 BC)
- 5. The Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600-1100 BC), an Area Unified around the Eastern Mediterranean
- 6. East Asia. From Villages to States (Ca. 5000-1027 BC)
- 7. The emergence of intermediary spaces
- Conclusion: Were there world-sytems during the Bronze Age?
- Part II. The Birth of the Afro-Eurasian World-System (1st Millennium BC-1st Century AD): Introduction
- 8. The beginnings of the Iron Age
- 9. The roads to the Orient
- 10. India. The birth of a new core
- 11. Southeast Asia, an interface between two oceans
- 12. China. From kingdoms to unification
- 13. Arabia. Maritime cultures and the rise of the caravan trade
- 14. East Africa: the emergence of a pre-Swahili culture on the Azanian coast
- 15. The Austronesian expansion and the first Malagasy cultures.
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