Cross Currents and Community Networks: The History of the Indian Ocean World

by Himanshu Prabha Ray (Editor), Edward A. Alpers (Editor)

This volume of maritime history shifts the focus from the European links of the Indian Ocean region to the Asian and African connections of maritime communities. It emphasizes the landscape of the sea and the multiplicity of communities that traversed it from Africa to the Indonesian
archipelago.

320 pages, Hardcover

First published March 15, 2007