A single, unique document - a list of one merchant's baggage - is the starting point used to bring to life the twelfth-century Indian Ocean. Drawing connections between material culture, foodstuffs and the construction of identity, Lambourn examines notions of home and mobility at a key moment in world history.

The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated p...(展开全部)

The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated p...(展开全部)

作者：乔治·胡拉尼（1913—1984），英国哲学家、历史学家和古典学者。出生于英国曼彻斯顿一个黎巴嫩基督教家庭。曾先后任教于巴勒斯坦的阿拉伯政府学院、密锡根大学近东学系、布法罗大学哲学系以及加州大学洛杉机分校。1978年曾被推举担任全美东方学会会长。其长期从教的布法罗大学在其退休后，还设立了“乔治·胡拉尼专题讲座”，专邀著名学者讲授近东与阿拉伯历史、哲学与文化。因其对哲学、古典文明和航海史等领域的研究，尤其是对中东文化的专业洞察力而受到学界广泛赞誉。 译者：孙博，1991年生于江苏徐州，2022年毕业于南京大学历史学院/中国南海研究协同创新中心，获历史学博士学位。现任中国矿业大学马克思主义学院讲师。研究领域为海上交通史、城市史。

Arab Seafaring in the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times. In this classic work George Hourani deals with the history of the sea trade of the Arabs in the Indian Ocean from its obscure origins many centuries before Christ to the time of its full extension to China and East Africa in the ninth and tenth centuries.

Europe's place in history is re-assessed in this first comprehensive history of the ancient world, centering on the Indian Ocean and its role in pre-modern globalization. Philippe Beaujard presents an ambitious and comprehensive global history of the Indian Ocean world, from the earliest state formations to 1500 CE. Supported by a wealth of empirical data, full color maps, plat...(展开全部)

Europe's place in history is re-assessed in this first comprehensive history of the ancient world, centering on the Indian Ocean and its role in pre-modern globalization. Philippe Beaujard presents an ambitious and comprehensive global history of the Indian Ocean world, from the earliest state formations to 1500 CE. Supported by a wealth of empirical data, full color maps, plat...(展开全部)

During the early medieval Islamicate period (800–1400 CE), discourses concerned with music and musicians were wide-ranging and contentious, and expressed in works on music theory and philosophy as well as literature and poetry. But in spite of attempts by influential scholars and political leaders to limit or control musical expression, music and sound permeated all layers of t...(展开全部)