TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beaujard,Philippe
TI  - The worlds of the Indian Ocean: a global history
SN  - 9781108341004 (ebook)
U1  - 909/.09824 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)
KW  - Indian Ocean Region
KW  - Globalization
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - History, Ancient
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Economic conditions
N1  - 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)
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108341004
ER  -