Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume I

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 China’s Increasing Integration into the Indian Ocean World Until Song 宋 Times: Sea Routes, Connections, Trades

Chapter 3 The Peak of China’s Long-Distance Maritime Connections with Western Asia During the Mongol Period: Comparison with the Pre-Mongol and Post-Mongol Periods

Chapter 5 Protohistoric and Early Historic Exchange in the Eastern Indian Ocean: A Re-evaluation of Current Paradigms

Chapter 6 Shipwrecks in Late First Millennium Southeast Asia: Southern China’s Maritime Trade and the Emerging Role of Arab Merchants in Indian Ocean Exchange

Chapter 7 Cargoes Human and Otherwise: Chinese Commerce in East African Goods During the Middle Period

Chapter 8 Indic Mercantile Networks and the Indian Ocean World: A Millennial Overview (c. 500–1500 CE)

Chapter 9 Opium in the Indian Ocean Trade in the Early Modern Period: A Commodity of Both Official and Contraband Commercial Exchange

Chapter 10 Transfer of Small Arms from Great Britain to Iran (Persia) in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 11 German Merchants in the Indian Ocean World: From Early Modern Paralysis to Modern Animation

Chapter 12 Han Chinese Representations of South Sea Merchants in Song China

Chapter 13 The Chinese in the Philippine Archipelago: Global Projection of a Local Community

Chapter 14 Port Cities in the Gulf and the Red Sea During the Long Eighteenth Century (c. 1720–c. 1840): General Characteristics and Some Comparisons with Southeast Asia