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This book is a multidisciplinary study of the Indian Ocean region, bringing together perspectives from the disciplines of history, defense and strategic studies, cultural and religious studies, and environmental studies. From the earliest exchanges through Sumerian and Harappan trade, to emerging geopolitical alliances in the twenty-first century, this volume demonstrates both the continuity and change of the region as well as its unity and diversity. The expanse of this ocean and its littoral rim is connected through the social imaginary, which enables these processes. It is with the stories of the peoples inhabiting this rim that this book is concernedātold both through micro studies of the everyday lives of the region's people and through macro studies centered around civilizations, empires, nation-states, and climate change.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- Part I: Region, Space, and Place
- Chapter 1: Imagining the Indian Ocean: Oceanic Spaces, People, and Discourses
- Chapter 2: Unity and Diversity and Unity in Diversity: People, Time, Space, and the Social Imaginary in the Indian Ocean World
- Part II: Diverse Identities, Communities, and Histories
- Chapter 3: Sultana: The Biography of an Indian Ocean Vessel
- Chapter 4: Penang and the Maritime Trade of Tamil Muslims, 1778ā1800 CE
- Chapter 5: Toward a Periodization of Indian Ocean Maritime History
- Chapter 6: The Portuguese Catholic Tradition and Its Impact on the Colonization of East Timor: A Critical Appraisal
- Chapter 7: Perth Undergraduate Studentsā Perceptions of the Relevance of History: Ramifications for Study of the Indian Ocean
- Part III: Indian Ocean Nations and Networks
- Chapter 8: Shaping a New Strategic Discourse in the Indo-Pacific with Small Island Nations
- Chapter 9: Indian Ocean Networks: Cable-Laying Companies and the Contingency of Empires
- Part IV: Environment, Culture, and Faith
- Chapter 10: āThe Sterility of the Country through Which They Passed Was beyond Description or Beliefā: Evidence of Drought in Early Colonial Sources in the Indian Ocean Zone of Southern Africa
- Chapter 11: Deltas as in-between Ecotones: The Sundarbans of Littoral South Asia
- Chapter 12: Dynamics in Indian Ocean Commerce and Culture: Cultural Pluralism in Sri Lanka
- Chapter 13: Religious Syncretism: Chinese Immigration and the Development of Folk Buddhayana Buddhism on the Island of Lombok, Indonesia
- Index
- About the Contributors