The Worlds of the Indian Ocean: A Global History - Couverture rigide

Beaujard, Philippe

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1108424562 ISBN 13 : 9781108424561

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Philippe Beaujard is an Emeritus Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut des Mondes Africains, Paris.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108424562
• ISBN 13: 9781108424561
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 946
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible