The a global history Volume 1 From the fourth millennium BCE to the sixth century CE Beaujard, Philippe creator text enk London Cambridge University Press 2019 A revised and updated translation. monographic eng 1 online resource (xxiii, 845 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). 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. Revised and updated translation of: Les mondes de l'océan Indien, Armand Colin, Paris, 2012 . Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Oct 2019). Excavations (Archaeology) Indian Ocean Region Globalization History To 1500 History, Ancient Indian Ocean Region Antiquities Indian Ocean Region Civilization Indian Ocean Region Economic conditions 909/.09824 9781108341004 (ebook) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108341004 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108341004 UkCbUP 170706 eng