Oceans in World History

by Buschmann, Rainer

• ISBN13: 9780073019031
• ISBN10: 0073019038
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-08
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This book explores cross-cultural encounters in the context of exploration, migration, and trade across the world's oceans. From the early migrations of Austronesian peoples to the increasing globalization of recent centuries, it examines trans-oceanic communication and exchange as a major motor of transformation in World History, providing readers with better appreciation of how oceans connect human societies, rather than separate them.

Table of Contents

Note from the Series Editors

Preface

Introduction: Oceans and World History

The Big History of Oceans

The Historical Long-Term Cycles of Oceans

The Indian Ocean: A First Maritime Crossroads

Introduction

The Indian Ocean in Antiquity

Religious Exchanges in the Indian Ocean: Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism

China and the Indian Ocean Exchange

The Expansion of Islam in the Indian Ocean

Islam and East Africa

Islam and Southeast Asia

Cosmopolitan Travelers and the Indian Ocean

Chinese and Iberian Ventures in the Indian Ocean

Conclusion

Cultural and Biological Exchanges in the Atlantic Ocean

Introduction

The Complexities of Navigation: Mastering Atlantic Winds and Currents

Columbian Exchanges

DiseasesPower

Animals and Plants

African Migrations to the Americas

Transatlantic Revolutions North America France and HaitiSouth America

Conclusion

Exploring Exchanges in the Pacific Ocean

Introduction

Original Settlement of the Pacific Islands

Traditional Navigation and Social Organization

A "Spanish Lake": Iberian Journeys to the Pacific Ocean

Linking Asia to the Pacific: Insular Southeast Asia

Linking Asia to the Pacific: The East Asia Connection

Geographic Imaginations: Unknown Continents in the Pacific

Encounters Tahiti and Hawaii China

Conclusion

Sea Power Unleashed: The World's Oceans 1800ndash;2000Introduction

Technological Changes: Steam Ships Oceans and Empires

Conquests Canals Sea Power Ideologies and Maritime Warfare

Ocean Liners: From Immigration to Tourism

Transoceanic Identities

International Women's Movement

Workers' Internationals

Pan-Africanism

Shipping Transformations: Oil Tankers and Container Ships

Mineral Wealth and the Law of the Sea

Environmental Concerns

Conclusion

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