The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century (Asia & the Pacific (Paperback)) - Softcover

Barendse, Rene J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765607298 ISBN 13: 9780765607294

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

The Arabian Seas is a magisterial work on the world political economy (trade, war, power) that explores the intersect of the worlds of Islam (including South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East and East Africa) and the European world-economy (particularly the seafaring Portuguese, Dutch, and British) on the eve of the modern world system. It is likely to become a classic in its field and one of the pillars of the emerging literature in recent years that has begun to recast our understanding of the "early modern history" of Asia and the world economy, underlining the early and long predominance of Asia in the world economy and showing the long and deep ties between European and Asian economic and military interactions. This work centrally addresses current debates on the nature of the early modern world system and the relative strengths of East and West. There are no competitors for this book, but it may be compared with Braudel's masterful studies of the Mediterranean in the sense that it does for the Arabian Seas (Indian Ocean World) spanning South Asia, the Middle East, and the East African Coast and beyond what Braudel did for the Mediterranean.

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Rene J. Barendse

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0765607298
• ISBN 13: 9780765607294
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 562