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Author Esler, Joshua

Title Indian Ocean Imaginings People, Time, and Space
Published Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (279 p.)
Contents Intro -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Part I: Region, Space, and Place -- Chapter 1: Imagining the Indian Ocean: Oceanic Spaces, People, and Discourses -- Introduction -- New Regionalism and Shifting Paradigms -- Porous Boundaries and Mental Remapping -- Indian Ocean Spatial Narratives -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Unity and Diversity and Unity in Diversity: People, Time, Space, and the Social Imaginary in the Indian Ocean World -- Space -- Time -- People -- Merchants -- Missionaries -- Migrants -- Notes
Part II: Diverse Identities, Communities, and Histories -- Chapter 3: Sultana: The Biography of an Indian Ocean Vessel -- The Omani-Zanzibari Maritime State -- From Bombay to New York, From Zanzibar to London -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Penang and the Maritime Trade of Tamil Muslims, 1778-1800 CE -- Introduction -- Tamil Muslims Merchants in the Indian Ocean, c. Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries -- EIC and the Establishment of Penang -- Penang and Tamil Muslim Merchants -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Toward a Periodization of Indian Ocean Maritime History
The Local Ocean Phase (loci oceanum) 90000 BCE to 3300 BCE -- The Open Ocean Phase (aperta oceanum) 3300 BCE to 1200 BCE -- The Regional Ocean Phase (nostrum oceanum) 1200 BCE to 500 BCE -- Imperial Ocean Phase (imperium oceanum) 500 BCE to 300 CE -- The Transition Phase (mutatio oceanum) 300 CE to 1000 CE -- The Indian Ocean Phase (Indicum oceanum) 1000 CE to 1500 CE -- The Contested Ocean Phase (pugnatum oceanum) 1500 CE to 1800 CE -- The Colonial Ocean Phase (a mare liberum) 1800 CE to 1950 CE -- The Global Ocean Phase (a mare territorio) 1950 CE to Present -- Themes -- Conclusion -- Notes
Chapter 6: The Portuguese Catholic Tradition and Its Impact on the Colonization of East Timor: A Critical Appraisal -- Introduction -- The Rise and Fall of the Portuguese Seaborne Empire -- The Portuguese Colonization in South East Asia -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Perth Undergraduate Students' Perceptions of the Relevance of History: Ramifications for Study of the Indian Ocean -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- Methodology -- Results -- Ramifications for Indian Ocean Studies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part III: Indian Ocean Nations and Networks
Chapter 8: Shaping a New Strategic Discourse in the Indo-Pacific with Small Island Nations -- Introduction -- Race for Maritime Dominance in the Indo-Pacific -- The Growing Contention in the Region -- India's Balancing and Engagement Tactics through Island Strategy in the Region -- Japan's Island Disputes and Maritime Cooperation -- The United States' Island Strategy in the Indo-Pacific -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Indian Ocean Networks: Cable-Laying Companies and the Contingency of Empires -- From Cables of Empire to Fiber-Optic Interdependence
Summary This book is a multidisciplinary study of the Indian Ocean region, bringing together perspectives from history, defense and strategic studies, cultural and religious studies, and environmental studies. This collection examines both the continuity and change of the region, as well as its unity and diversity
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Discourses, Theories, Sources, and Methods
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Civilization
SUBJECT Indian Ocean Region -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064987
Subject Indian Ocean Region
Form Electronic book
Author Fielding, Mark
S, Arjun
Black, Jackson
Das, Debojyoti
Frame, Ellianna
Hannaford, Matthew
Kerr, Thor
Prestholdt, Jeremy
Ridgway, Peter
ISBN 9781666922172
166692217X