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.
| ISBN: | 9781108424561 |
| Publication date: | 24th October 2019 |
| Author: | Philippe (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris) Beaujard |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 946 pages |
| Series: | The Worlds of the Indian Ocean |
| Genres: |
General and world history Asian history |