Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume II

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   • Angela Schottenhammer

   Pages 1-13

3. Religions in the Indian Ocean World

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Buddhism and the Maritime Crossings

      • Tansen Sen

      Pages 17-50

   3. The Transmission of Vaiṣṇavism Across the Bay of Bengal: Trade Networks and State Formation in Early Historic Southeast Asia

      • Pierre-Yves Manguin

      Pages 51-68

   4. Religion and Early Trade in the Western Indian Ocean: Ideology and Knowledge Exchanges Across the Indian Ocean World

      • Eivind Heldaas Seland

      Pages 69-83

   5. Islam Across the Indian Ocean to 1500 CE

      • Geoff Wade

      Pages 85-138

4. Shipbuilding Technologies and Transportation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. Shipping of the Indian Ocean World

      • Nick Burningham

      Pages 141-201

   3. Cross-Regional and -Chronological Perspectives on East Asian Seafaring and Shipbuilding

      • Jun Kimura

      Pages 203-226

   4. Towards a Hybrid Seagoing Ship: The Transfer and Exchange of Maritime Know-How and Shipbuilding Technology Between Holland and Japan Before the Opening of Japan (1853)

      • Leonard Blussé

      Pages 227-248

5. Transfer of Knowledge and Technologies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 249-249

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   2. Mongol Empire and Its Impact on Chinese Porcelains

      • Morris Rossabi

      Pages 251-259

   3. Eurasia, Medicine and Trade: Arabic Medicine in East Asia—How It Came to Be There and How It Was Supported, Including Possible Indian Ocean Connections for the Supply of Medicinals

      • Paul D. Buell

      Pages 261-293

   4. Mules in the Indian Ocean World: Breeding and Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780s to 1918

      • William G. Clarence-Smith

      Pages 295-317

6. Back Matter

   Pages 319-346

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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. Focusing on the role of religion in the expansion of commerce and exchange across the region, as well as on technology and knowledge transfer, volume II covers shipbuilding and navigation technologies, porcelain production, medicinal knowledge, and mules as a commodity and means of transportation.

• Indian Ocean world exchange
• Religions of the Indian Ocean World
• Buddhism
• Maritime trade
• Maritime crossings
• Trade networks of the Indian Ocean World
• Vaisnavism
• Islam across the Indian Ocean
• Shipping in the Indian Ocean
• Early shipbuilding technology
• transfer of knowledge
• Indian ocean seafaring
• history of the global economy
• intra-Asian connections
• Islamization of Southeast Asia
• maritime archaeology
• Mongol Empire
• Chinese porcelain
• Arabic Medicine
• history of commodity chains

“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)

“This second installment of Schottenhammer's Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World expands beyond trade and its diaspora. Across the long stretch from the Indian Ocean to the South China Sea, or West Asia to East Asia, the plot is thickened with wide-ranging studies on the intertwining of religion, trade and state through time. Essays on the circulation of shipbuilding techniques, ceramics and medicines, whether continuous or episodic, display the surprising and forgotten wealth of exchanges that constituted the lifeblood of this pioneering stage of global interconnectivity. Both volumes lay the challenge of early globalization squarely at the doorstep of Chinese history.” (Engseng Ho, Professor of Anthropology and History, Duke University, USA)

• 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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