Autore: Edward A. Alpers

This original collection brings islands to the fore in a growing body of scholarship on the Indian Ocean, examining them as hubs or points of convergence and divergence in a world of maritime …

Blessed with numerous safe harbours, accessible ports, and a rich hinterland, Gujarat has been central to the history of Indian Ocean maritime exchange that involved not only goods, but also people …

The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world’s geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and around its shores from the third millennium B.C.E. to …

The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world’s geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and around its shores from the third millennium B.C.E. to …

This important collection of essays examines the history and impact of the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the Indian Ocean World, a region stretching from Southern and Eastern Africa to …

This important collection of essays examines the history and impact of the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the Indian Ocean World, a region stretching from Southern and Eastern Africa to …

This important collection of essays examines the history and impact of the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the Indian Ocean World, a region stretching from Southern and Eastern Africa to …

First published in 2004. This book – previously published as a special issue of the journal Slavery and Abolition – provides pioneering studies on the nature and structure of resistance to forms of …

First published in 2004. This book – previously published as a special issue of the journal Slavery and Abolition – provides pioneering studies on the nature and structure of resistance to forms of …

Explores the culturally complex and cosmopolitan histories of islands off the African coast Islands and island chains like Cabo Verde, Madagascar, and Bioko are often sidelined in contemporary un …

Professor Shepperson says of this regional economic history of East Central Africa that it is a "refreshing combination of a scholarly survey of a relatively new field of African history and of …

A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History is a guide for college and high school educators who are teaching Indian Ocean histories for the first time or who want to reinvigorate their courses. …