The Indian Ocean : a history of people and the sea /

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Author / Creator:McPherson, Kenneth.
Imprint:Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Description:x, 318 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1728258
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ISBN:0195633741 : Rs350.00
Notes:Map on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-289) and index.
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Summary:Professor McPherson shows that for millenia the Indian Ocean had a profound influence on the lives of the people who lived on its shores. Fishermen, sailors and merchants travelled its waters linking the world's earliest civilizations from Africa to East Asia in a complex web of relationships. The Ocean was also a highway for the exchange of religions, cultures and technologies, giving the Indian Ocean region an identity as a largely self-contained `world'. This important study traces the history of the Indian Ocean from ages past to the present day.
Item Description:Map on lining papers.
Physical Description:x, 318 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-289) and index.
ISBN:0195633741