Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World (Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies)

"Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World is a collection which covers a long time span and diverse areas around the ocean. Many of the essays look at the Indian Ocean before Europeans arrived, reminding the reader that there was a cohesive Indian Ocean. This collection includes empirical studies and essays focused on particular area or production. The essays cover various aspects of trade and exchange, the Indian Ocean as a world-system, East African and Chinese connections with the Indian Ocean World, and the movement of people and ideas around the ocean"--Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-viii Introduction: Maritime History and the Indian Ocean World....Pages 1-14 The Worlds of the Indian Ocean....Pages 15-26 The Southeast Asian Connection in the First Eurasian World Economy, 200 BCE–CE 500....Pages 27-54 Chinese Engagement with the Indian Ocean during the Song,Yuan, and Ming Dynasties (Tenth to Sixteenth Centuries)....Pages 55-81 Massoi and Kain Timur in the Birdshead Peninsula of New Guinea, the Easternmost Corner of the Indian Ocean World....Pages 83-108 Continuity and Change in Maritime Trade in the Straits of Melaka in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries....Pages 109-128 Competing Spatial Networks: Kasimbazar and Chandernagore in Overland and Indian Ocean Worlds....Pages 129-151 Two Sixteenth-Century Indian Ocean Intellectuals in Goa and Malabar: Orta and Zainuddin....Pages 153-166 East African Travelers and Traders in the Indian Ocean: Swahili Ships, Swahili Mobilities ca. 1500–1800....Pages 167-202 Back Matter....Pages 203-212