Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume I

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Introduction

   • Angela Schottenhammer

   Pages 1-17

3. Routes and Connections

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. China’s Increasing Integration into the Indian Ocean World Until Song 宋 Times: Sea Routes, Connections, Trades

      • Angela Schottenhammer

      Pages 21-52

   3. The Peak of China’s Long-Distance Maritime Connections with Western Asia During the Mongol Period: Comparison with the Pre-Mongol and Post-Mongol Periods

      • Hyunhee Park

      Pages 53-78

   4. “He Did Not Kiss the Earth Between His Hands”: Arabic Sources on the Arrivals of the Zheng He Fleet in Aden and Mecca (1419–1432)

      • Alexander Jost

      Pages 79-95

4. Commercial Crossroads and New Perspectives on Archaeological Evidence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. Protohistoric and Early Historic Exchange in the Eastern Indian Ocean: A Re-evaluation of Current Paradigms

      • Pierre-Yves Manguin

      Pages 99-120

   3. Shipwrecks in Late First Millennium Southeast Asia: Southern China’s Maritime Trade and the Emerging Role of Arab Merchants in Indian Ocean Exchange

      • John Guy

      Pages 121-163

   4. Cargoes Human and Otherwise: Chinese Commerce in East African Goods During the Middle Period

      • Don J. Wyatt

      Pages 165-189

   5. Indic Mercantile Networks and the Indian Ocean World: A Millennial Overview (c. 500–1500 CE)

      • Ranabir Chakravarti

      Pages 191-224

5. Official and Contraband Trade in the Nineteenth Century

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225

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   2. Opium in the Indian Ocean Trade in the Early Modern Period: A Commodity of Both Official and Contraband Commercial Exchange

      • Om Prakash

      Pages 227-238

   3. Transfer of Small Arms from Great Britain to Iran (Persia) in the Nineteenth Century

      • Ichiro Ozawa

      Pages 239-257

   4. German Merchants in the Indian Ocean World: From Early Modern Paralysis to Modern Animation

      • Mariko Fukuoka

      Pages 259-292

6. Diasporas, Trade, and Human Mobility

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 293-293

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   2. Han Chinese Representations of South Sea Merchants in Song China

      • John W. Chaffee

      Pages 295-315

   3. The Chinese in the Philippine Archipelago: Global Projection of a Local Community

      • Manel Ollé

      Pages 317-342

   4. Port Cities in the Gulf and the Red Sea During the Long Eighteenth Century (c. 1720–c. 1840): General Characteristics and Some Comparisons with Southeast Asia

      • René J. Barendse

      Pages 343-374

7. Back Matter

   Pages 375-401

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This volume investigates the emergence and spread of maritime commerce and interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World—the world’s first “global economy”—from a longue durée perspective. Spanning from antiquity to the nineteenth century, these essays move beyond the usual focus on geographical sub-regions or thematic aspects to foreground inter- and trans-regional connections. Analyzing multi-lingual records and recent archaeological findings, volume I examines mercantile networks, the role of merchants, routes, and commodities, as well as diasporas and port cities.

• Indian Ocean world trade
• Commerce in the Indian Ocean
• Indian Ocean sea routes
• history of shipbuilding
• human movement
• human-environment interaction
• global economy
• development of mercantile networks
• diasporic communities
• spread of religions
• archaeological discoveries
• knowledge transfer
• history of Islam
• history of Buddhism
• Chinese maritime trade
• Mongol conquest
• Chinese ceramics
• East African trade
• opium trade

“This volume provides a timely reminder that the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific was an active zone for millennia. The scholarly essays brought together by Angela Schottenhammer testify that the historical Indo-(Western) Pacific needs to be much better understood than ever before in our world of shifting power centres.” (Wang Gungwu, University Professor, National University of Singapore)

“In this innovative volume, Schottenhammer and contributors showcase leading-edge research that traces connections between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. Especially illuminating are the vivid studies that connect China with West Asia through primary, secondary and archaeological sources, including shipwrecks. Together, they demonstrate the historical significance of trading relations between East and West Asia, and set the stage for a reinterpretation of maritime Southeast Asia between the two. A key text in the expanding inter-Asia history library, this volume is essential reading for contemporary geo-strategists of the re-emerging Eurasian and Indo-Pacific realms.” (Engseng Ho, Duke University and National University of Singapore)

• University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

  Angela Schottenhammer

• Research Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre (IOWC), McGill University, Montreal, Canada

  Angela Schottenhammer

Angela Schottenhammer is Professor of Non-European History at the University of Salzburg, Austria, and Research Director and Adjunct Professor at the Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, Canada.

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