Empires of the Monsoon
A History of the Indian Ocean and Its Invaders
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5145677 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Larry W Bowman (corresponding author), Richard Hall (0000-0001-7666-889X), William Kelleher Storey |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 665 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/221504 |
| OpenAlex | W576070892 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
A triumph: a first class comprehensive narrative of the impact upon the people of the Indian Ocean of those who penetrated it. It is hard to believe that this account of a European epic has any rival.' J.M. ROBERTS, author of the Penguin History of the World Until Vasco da Gama discovered the sea-route to the East in 1497-9 almost nothing was known in the West of the exotic cultures and wealth of the Indian Ocean and its peoples. It is this civilisation and its destruction at the hands of the West that Richard Hall recreates in this book. Hall's history of the exploration and exploitation - by Chinese and Arab travellers, and by the Portuguese, Dutch and British alike - is one of brutality, betrayal and colonial ambition. It is history told with the true gift of a storyteller and a keen eye for the exotic. It is a compelling and instructive epic
Ancient history · Climatology · Geography · Indian ocean · Monsoon · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Geology · Oceanography
Trauma, History and Desire in the Indian Ocean Imaginary. A Reading of M.G. Vassanji’s The Book of Secrets as Material Culture
A Sea of Debt
The Black Atlantic Meets the Indian Ocean
Postcolonialities
Cross-cultural Labyrinths in the Literatures of the Indian Ocean
Contingency theory
Untangling Stories and Healing Rifts
Lamu
Introduction
Urban renewal in East African port cities
Slave, Convict, and Indentured Labor and the Tyranny of the Particular
Poor Robins
Maison des Civilisations et de l'Unité Réunionnaise
Geography, Demography, and Economic Growth in Africa
Positions
Shell Middens, Ships and Seeds
A traffic repugnant to humanity
From Port-City to World-System
Locating the Indian Ocean
Trade, Production, and Incorporation. The Indian Ocean in Flux, 1600–1900
Britain in the Indian Ocean Region
Writing on Water
Ending the history of silence
Ships Passing in the Night? Reflections on the Middle East in the Indian Ocean
Vasco da Gama’s Voyages to India
Port-city renewal in developing countries. The waterfront at Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
How Not to (Re)Write World History
Trade and State in the Arabian Seas
The Many Voyages of Fateh Al-Khayr
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2024 (28) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |