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Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World

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Editors:
  1. Gwyn Campbell

    1. McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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  • Provides a thoroughly interdisciplinary analysis of the history of economic and cultural growth in the region
  • Uses environmental history as a framework for analyzing the region's development
  • Includes leading experts in multiple fields, including history, political scientists, ethnographers, and economists

Part of the book series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies (IOWS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Africa and the Early Indian Ocean World Exchange System in the Context ofHuman–Environment Interaction

    • Gwyn Campbell
    Pages 1-24

  3. Origins of Southeast Asian Shipping and Maritime Communication Across the Indian Ocean

    • Waruno Mahdi
    Pages 25-49

  4. Austronesian Shipping in the Indian Ocean: From Outrigger Boats to Trading Ships

    • Pierre-Yves Manguin
    Pages 51-76

  5. Austronesians in Madagascar: A Critical Assessment of the Works of Paul Ottino and Philippe Beaujard

    • Alexander Adelaar
    Pages 77-112

  6. Early Greek and Latin Sources on the Indian Ocean and Eastern Africa

    • Ephraim Lytle
    Pages 113-134

  7. A GIS Approach to Finding the Metropolis of Rhapta

    • Carl Hughes, Ruben Post
    Pages 135-155

  8. Contact between East Africa and India in the First Millennium CE

    • Sunil Gupta
    Pages 157-171

  9. Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean World in the First Millennium CE: The Glass Bead Evidence

    • Marilee Wood
    Pages 173-193

  10. Migration and Interaction between Madagascar and Eastern Africa, 500 BCE–1000 CE: An Archaeological Perspective

    • Anneli Ekblom, Paul Lane, Chantal Radimilahy, Jean-Aime Rakotoarisoa, Paul Sinclair, Malika Virah-Sawmy
    Pages 195-230

  11. A Genomic Investigation of the Malagasy Confirms the Highland–Coastal Divide, and the Lack of Middle Eastern Gene Flow

    • Jason A. Hodgson
    Pages 231-254

  12. Intercontinental Networks Between Africa and Asia Across the Indian Ocean: What Do Village Chickens Reveal?

    • J.M. Mwacharo
    Pages 255-274

  13. East Africa in the Early Indian Ocean World Slave Trade: The Zanj Revolt Reconsidered

    • Gwyn Campbell
    Pages 275-303

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 305-378
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About this book

This volume comprises a selection of essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines that discuss the exchange relationship between Africa and the wider Indian Ocean world (IOW), a macro-region running from East Africa to China, from early times to about 1300 CE. The rationale for regarding this macro-region as a “world” is the central significance of the monsoon system which facilitated the early emergence of long-distance trans-IOW maritime exchange of commodities, peoples, plants, animals, technologies and ideas.

Editors and Affiliations

  • McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    Gwyn Campbell

About the editor

Gwyn Campbell is a Canada Research Chair, and Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre, at McGill University, Canada. He has published widely on Indian Ocean world themes, including An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895 (2005) and David Griffiths and the Missionary "History of Madagascar" (2012). He is currently completing a manuscript on Africa and the Indian Ocean world from early times to 1900. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World

  • Editors: Gwyn Campbell

  • Series Title: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33822-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-33821-7Published: 27 December 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81611-1Published: 14 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-33822-4Published: 19 December 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2730-9703

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9711

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 378

  • Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Social History, Environmental Politics

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